Due to the many advantages of caged chickens, more and more cages are used at home and abroad. The materials for making chicken cages are mostly iron wire and steel, and some rural professional households can also use cork strips to make chicken cages. Commonly used chicken coop types are as follows:

1. Chick cage

Commonly used chicken cages have four layers and eight grids, 180 cm wide, 45 cm deep, and 165 cm high; 80 to 120 chicks of 15 to 40 days old can be raised. Each chicken coop is 87 cm wide, 45 cm deep and 24 cm high, and can accommodate about 15 chicks

2. Breeding cage

Generally used for 41 to 140 day old chickens. The three-story structure has an overall width of 1.6-1.7 meters and a height of 1.7-1.8 meters. Each single cage is 80 cm long, 40 cm high and 42 cm deep. The mesh at the bottom of the cage is 2 to 4 cm. The mesh on the top, sides and back of the cage is 2.5 cm × 2.5 cm. The cage door is 14-15 cm wide, and each single cage can accommodate 7-15 adult chickens.

3. Square cage

This kind of cage is generally used when high-quality broiler breeders adopt natural mating methods. This cage is a large metal cage, 2 meters long, 1 meter wide, and 0.7 meters high. The bottom of the cage is inclined outward and extends out of the cage. Form an egg trough. Several or dozens of them are assembled into a row, a feeding trough and a drinking pipe are attached to the cage, and a nipple drinker is used to drink water.

4. Laminated cages

The stacked type is made of multi-layer chicken cages overlapping each other, and there is a manure removal belt between each layer. When the cage is installed, every two cages are installed back-to-back, and several or dozens of cages form a row, leaving an aisle between each two rows. With different equipment conditions, multiple layers of cages can be overlapped together, and generally three layers are appropriate. This layout occupies less land and has a large number of chickens per unit area, which is very suitable for intensive scale chicken farming with a small area.

5. Ladder equipment

The stepped laying hen equipment is the type A installation of the chicken cage. There are two types of manure cleaning: scraper manure and belt manure. equipment.

6. Half-step chicken coop.

The arrangement of half-step chicken cages is generally similar to that of full-step chicken cages, but there are parts of the upper and lower chicken cages. Because its stocking density is 1/4 higher than that of full-step chicken cages, it has higher requirements for ventilation, cooling and disinfection.

Cage-raised laying hens generally start to enter the cage from 18 to 20 weeks of age, and are only eliminated from the cage when they are raised to 72 weeks of age to complete a production year. Therefore, under the cooperation of good environmental conditions of the chicken house, there must also be a chicken cage with a reasonable structure, so that the laying hens can exert their highest production efficiency.

The size of the laying hen cage must meet its certain activity area, feeding position and height. At the same time, in order to make the laid eggs roll out of the cage in time, the bottom of the cage should have a certain inclination. According to the above requirements, the arrangement of laying hen cages must be composed of many small single cages. Each single cage has 2, 3 or 4-5 chickens.