Feather pecking and cannibalism kill more layer hens in commercial production than most diagnosed diseases. In high-density housing — cage-free barns, aviaries, and deep-litter floor systems — a single cannibalism…
Published: April 12, 2026 | By: Otto’s Farms Editorial | Read time: 6 min The Iran-U.S. ceasefire may have quieted the guns, but the fallout for the world’s food…
The Cobb 500 is the most widely produced broiler breed on the planet. It holds that position not because of marketing but because of measurable biological performance: it converts feed…
In agribusiness, the fastest way to achieve “uptime” is often through the optimization of existing assets rather than building from scratch. Converting an old broiler house, a warehouse, or even…
Scaling a poultry farm is not as simple as multiplying your bird count by 100. In the world of software engineering, we call this “Horizontal Scaling.” If your initial architecture…
In the high-density layer business, every egg represents a unit of profit, and every bird represents a capital asset. However, a poultry house is also a high-value target for “external…
In a high-density layer farm, waste is the most significant “log file” your system generates. If left unmanaged, poultry manure becomes a source of ammonia toxicity, a breeding ground for…
In the high-stakes world of commercial egg production, a single viral outbreak can “crash” your entire system, leading to 100% flock loss and total capital depletion. As a software engineer,…
In the world of high-density egg production, we often focus exclusively on the “inputs” (feed) and “outputs” (eggs). However, as a software engineer, I know that the “environment” in which…
In a large-scale poultry operation, labor and feed represent the two highest operating expenses. As a CEO, I view feeding and watering systems as the “data pipelines” of the farm.…
