Chicken Cage Floor Without Husk

THERE are several types of cage floor broilers (broiler / cut) that farmers in Indonesia, which used ground floor / cement (deep litter), bladed (perforated) (all-slat) and combination (slat and litter. Floors soil / cement is the cage which floor of compacted or cemented soil and sown on top floor mat materials like straw. bladed floor, is the cage made the stage a floor model made of wood with a slit antarkayu range of about 1-2 cm so the dirt falls to the ground, is a combination of cage partially ground floor and part of the stage is usually used in Breeding chickens (breeding farm)
In the cage floor is usually sprinkled with dirt floors / covered with husk thickness of 5 to 10 cm and is used to maintain old broiler chickens from 1 day to harvest (42 days), if the wet / moist husks reversed or replaced new. In the stable stage floor covered with plastic / tarps stocked first and husks and used to keep chickens from age 1 to 14 days to avoid a chicken foot slipped, after which the plastic sheets / tarpaulins removed so the dirt falls to the ground. For the floor mat material used is rice husk breeder, perhaps the main reason is cheap and easily available, but because the hull is now competing with brick industry, the price increases and to farmers in difficulty Waterford Kedu husks and threaten the survival of his ranch (KR Saturday Pahing July 14, 2007 p. 12).
Cage Floor Materials
Actually, farmers can use the cage floor mat material (litter) do not have to husk, be of other materials because the materials used are essentially must have a high absorption of water. According to Brake (1992) that a good litter material is material that: 1) is absorbent, 2) free of dust, 3) difficult-to-eat chicken, 4) non-toxic, 5) cheap / abundant, and easily transported / replaced.
1. Absorbent means having a high absorption of water so the dirt dries quickly.
2. Mean dust-free chicken if it is occupied not remove dust that can cause irritation to the eyes of chickens and workers.
3. It's hard to eat chicken litter material mean particle size larger than the particle size of feed, especially at the beginning of maintenance.
4. Non-toxic litter mean when the material is eaten by the chickens will not kill chickens.
5. Cheap and easily obtainable materials used are not meant to make increased production costs so sharp and continuous availability.
6. Easily transported / replaced it mean when in the cage litter wet / moist husks reversed or replaced new.