The invention relates to a broiler container, designed and adapted for accommodating and holding broilers, having a floor and side walls defining an inner volume, the broiler container designed and adapted to be stackable with broiler containers of the same design, characterized in that at least one support column extends from the floor up through the inner volume, that the support column is distanced from all the side walls providing space for at least one broiler in between the support column and any of the side walls, and that the support column (14, 114, 214, 314, 414) has a height to support the floor of a further broiler container (1, 101, 201, 301, 401) stacked on top of the broiler container. The invention further relates to a unit having at least two of the afore-mentioned broiler containers.
