Abstract: This invention is a system and involved components for staging a series of multi-compartmented, multi-tier chicken cages and loading them in a chicken house for with a chickens loader that receives chickens urged by a revolving gathering head onto a first longitudinal conveyor belt sloped upwardly to a second longitudinal conveyor belt assembly the distal end of which is vertically and horizontally positional form pivot positions at the proximal end thereof. A third conveyor system is longitudinally aligned and slideably mounted on the second conveyor assembly for extension and retraction. The belts of the three belt conveyors are operated to increase the speed of the chickens on the belts to a terminal speed in the range of from about 500 to about 1400 feet per minute, for discharge of the chickens into a facing open compartment of the chicken cage at that terminal speed.

Abstract: A series of multi-compartmented, multi-tier poultry cages are staged for loading by a poultry loader that moves transversely to the direction of a plurality of side-by-side poultry receiving and batching bins each having parallel conveyor belts longitudinally arranged for individual discharge of batches of poultry onto a conveyor belt of the poultry loader arranged for alignment with both individual bin conveyor belts, and individual front opening poultry cage compartments frontally presented by the cage stager. The stager removes a filled cage, relocates it to another position where it frontally faces in the same direction in which as an empty cage it was placed on the stager, for removal by a fork lift, while in the meantime another cage is placed on the stager and moved into position for filling, in a continuing process, until all poultry are loaded.

Abstract: This invention is a system and involved components for staging a series of multi-compartmented, multi-tier poultry cages for loading by a poultry loader that moves transversely to the direction of a plurality of side-by-side poultry receiving and batching bins each containing a floor that is a conveyor belt. The bin conveyor belts are parallel with each other and are longitudinally arranged for individual discharge of batches of poultry onto a conveyor belt of the poultry loader. The loader in turn is longitudinally arranged for individual alignment with both the bin conveyor belts and individual front opening compartments of an empty poultry cage frontally presented to the loader by a cage stager. The loader receives a batch of poultry from a bin and discharges the batch as a group at high loading speed into individual compartments, repeating the process for each bin and each compartment on a tier.