The invention relates to a cage arrangement for poultry having cage batteries arranged above a manure pit, each battery displaying two cages facing each other, the cages being placed one atop another in tiers, in which arrangement

• a manure scraper is arranged in each tier underneath each cage;
• between two cages facing each other an open space is present;
• under the open space, a passage is present in the cover plate of the manure pit for the manure conveyed into the open space by the manure scrapers;
• and the manure scrapers are driven in an back-and-forth manner.