Direct factory-manufactured specialized vehicles and automation machinery designed for high-density poultry operations, feed transport, and biosecure farm-to-processing integration.
Manual catching is rapidly becoming the weakest link in high-volume commercial broiler integration. Rising labor scarcity, stringent animal welfare directives, and biosecurity vulnerabilities demand automated mechanical harvesting.
Night catching crews operate under severe physical strain in low-light, high-ammonia poultry house environments. Industrial integrators worldwide face annualized turnover rates exceeding 85% among manual catching labor. Automated chicken catching machines eliminate manual handling, reducing harvesting personnel requirements from 12–16 manual catchers to just 2 or 3 certified machine operators per flock cycle.
Manual inverted two-leg catching causes intense bird panic, joint dislocation, and serum corticosterone spikes. International food safety standards, including GlobalGAP and EU animal welfare directives, increasingly penalize high Dead-On-Arrival (DOA) numbers. Automated harvesters guide birds upright via flexible polyurethane fingers onto wide, synchronized conveyors, reducing total carcass bruising by up to 65%.
Wing breakage, blood hemorrhaging, and breast meat hematomas induced by rough manual catching result in direct downgrades at the primary processing plant. Mechanical harvesting with smooth modular drawer indexing minimizes live-bird struggle, preserving breast meat yield integrity and significantly lifting Grade-A bird percentages across continuous slaughter shifts.
Benefiting from more than 15 years of animal husbandry vehicle engineering under CP M&E and Xinbaiqin, our production campus delivers European-grade performance at an optimal industrial ROI.
Situated in the heart of Zhejiang's advanced machinery corridor, our 66,667 m² production site controls every facet: CNC laser chassis cutting, robotic sub-assembly welding, electrical harness encapsulation, and in-house hydraulic test benches.
Unlike generic industrial equipment builders, our designs evolve directly from live farm operational feedback across CP Group’s extensive breeder, layer, and broiler enterprises, ensuring zero theoretical guesswork in mechanical durability.
We customize pick-up widths (1.8m to 3.2m), low-clearance articulated chassis profiles for older barn designs, and interface seamlessly with world-standard crate systems including Meyn, Linco, Anglia Autoflow, and Stork/Marel.
Direct factory supply delivers 35% to 55% capital equipment expenditure savings compared to Western European machinery imports, accompanied by non-proprietary hydraulic/pneumatic component architecture for effortless global maintenance.
An empirical performance evaluation across throughput, bird injury reduction, operational biosecurity, and labor economics in commercial poultry houses.
| Evaluation Parameter | Xinbaiqin / GoldBees Automated Harvester | Conventional Manual Catching Crews | Industrial Benefit & Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catching Capacity (Birds/Hour) | 6,000 – 9,500 birds/hr (Continuous) | 1,200 – 1,800 birds/hr (8-person crew) | +400% Efficiency |
| Carcass Bruising & Hematoma Rate | ≤ 0.65% (Gentle polyurethane rotators) | 3.80% – 6.20% (Manual leg grabbing) | Preserves Grade-A Yield |
| Dead-On-Arrival (DOA) Rate | ≤ 0.12% – 0.18% | 0.45% – 0.85% (High heat & crush stress) | Direct Profit Recovery |
| Crew Size Required on Site | 2 – 3 Operators (Pilot + Crate Loader) | 12 – 16 Manual Laborers | 75% Headcount Elimination |
| Barn Air Quality & Dust Generation | Low disturbance, steady forward crawl | Extreme panic, dust storms, high ammonia stir | Enhanced Farm Health |
| Cross-Farm Pathogen Biosecurity | Full IP69K Washdown & Thermal Sanitization | High bio-risk via clothing, boots, and tools | Avian Influenza Barrier |
| Integration with Transport Crating | Direct-feed into automated drawers/cages | Manual cramming into cages, trap-door damage | Streamlined Fleet Logistics |
Different housing designs, litter substrates, and extreme climatic profiles demand specialized crawler, hydraulic, and filtration options.
Engineered for large clear-span floor barns with deep wood shavings or rice hull bedding. Features ultra-wide heavy-duty rubber tracks with minimal ground pressure (≤ 18 kPa) to glide smoothly over uneven bedding without disturbing heating or nipple drinking lines.
Built to thrive in ambient temperatures exceeding 42°C and relative humidity up to 98%. Equipped with reinforced heavy-duty hydraulic fluid coolers, anti-fungal silicone harness coatings, and sealed electro-valves designed to withstand corrosive humid air and aggressive ammonia vapor.
Engineered for rapid field-to-field mobility. Machine incorporates hydraulic chassis folding mechanisms, enabling it to tuck its collection arms to under 2.4 meters width in less than 3 minutes, smoothly driving onto specialized transport trailers for relocation between distant bio-clusters.
Modern poultry harvesting is evolving into an intelligent, sensor-driven discipline. Explore how our self-developed automation sub-systems guarantee uptime and biosecurity.
Operating under red-light or near-dark house conditions to keep broilers calm, our intelligent catchers leverage low-lux optical sensors and forward ultrasonic pingers to automatically adjust collection belt velocity based on real-time flock density, eliminating bird congestion at the transition head.
Equipped with electro-hydraulic ground sensors that read floor unevenness at 50 Hz. The collection head automatically floats across litter mounds, maintaining constant floor clearance (±5mm) without scooping bedding or scratching floor concrete, guaranteeing silky-smooth bird conveyance.
Integrated onboard CAN-bus modules track hydraulic pressure, oil temperature, motor current draw, and total birds crated per hour. Farm operational managers can monitor flock logistics in real time through an encrypted cellular or Wi-Fi cloud dashboard with predictive maintenance alerts.
Practical answers to technical, commercial, and operational questions asked by poultry integrators, farm engineers, and logistics directors.
The machine uses counter-rotating, ultra-soft durometer polyurethane catching fingers that sweep under the birds' feet while they rest upright. Broilers naturally step backward onto the cushioned intake conveyor without flapping or panic. Birds are never inverted or held by their feet, which eliminates the primary cause of wing dislocations, hip joint tears, and breast hemorrhages seen in manual catching.
Depending on bird weight (1.8 kg to 3.5 kg) and operator experience with crate transfer, our machines deliver continuous throughputs of 6,000 to 9,500 birds per hour. This enables an entire 30,000-bird poultry house to be evacuated and loaded onto transport semi-trailers in approximately 3.5 to 4.5 hours with only 3 on-site personnel.
Yes. We engineer universal or customized crating elevator interfaces that integrate smoothly with industry-standard drawer crates from Meyn, Linco, Anglia Autoflow, Stork/Marel, as well as traditional stacked transport crates. The elevator's hydraulic height and crate-positioning clamps adjust rapidly to your exact fleet specifications.
Our equipment is built to meet strict IP69K high-pressure washdown standards. The chassis is fabricated from hot-dip galvanized steel or 304 stainless steel with sealed wiring harnesses and encapsulated electro-valves. All conveyor belts are food-grade antimicrobial PVC, allowing for immediate 85°C hot-water chemical foaming and peracetic acid disinfection cycles between farms.
We offer three flexible powertrain systems: (1) Stage V / Tier 4 Final ultra-low-emission diesel hydraulic power units with soot particulate filtration; (2) Pure electric tethered power systems connecting directly to farm 380V/480V three-phase supplies; and (3) Advanced lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) onboard battery systems for completely emission-free, silent harvesting in sensitive houses.
Most poultry operations producing over 1 million broilers annually achieve full machine payback within 9 to 14 months. This ROI is driven by three measurable factors: an immediate 70% reduction in catching payroll/subcontractor costs, a 0.25% to 0.45% recovery in live weight from reduced DOA rates, and a measurable 1.5% to 3.0% boost in Grade-A carcass yield pricing at the abattoir.
Yes. We offer articulated compact chassis models featuring a zero-turn radius steering system and hydraulically retractable intake arms. These allow effortless navigation between structural ceiling support columns spaced as narrow as 3 meters apart without scraping housing fixtures or feed pans.
Through our CP M&E international network and GoldBees overseas service hubs, we dispatch certified factory field engineers for on-site commissioning and 5-day comprehensive crew training. We maintain strategic spare parts hubs with express door-to-door delivery within 48 to 72 hours worldwide, utilizing non-proprietary hydraulic components compatible with Parker and Danfoss.
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Request comprehensive CAD engineering drawings, custom crating interface schematics, and an authentic factory-direct quotation tailored to your broiler barn dimensions and crate formats.
