Is this system working optimally?
Author: Piet Simons
Publish date: Wednesday. February 7th, 2018
Photo: Jan van Esch
Ask yourself the following questions: What do I see? What does it mean? What should I do?
This is Practical guide to improving egg quality
- LOOK: There are too many eggs on this rod conveyor.
- THINK: Probably the farm-packer capacity has been increased, but the rod conveyor is still too narrow.
- ACT: A short term solution is to make the rod conveyor run faster. But more speed changes in the systems also increases the risk of cracks. Better is to increase the frequency of egg collection. And of course make sure that all parts of the collection system have the same capacity.
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