On-farm-hatching

"I think it is important to share my knowledge, so that others can benefit from it. But also to make others enthusiastic and to show what is going on in our...

"In a traditional broiler production cycle, the downtime is short when working according to a fixed cycle of 7 or 9 weeks. Warming up the concrete floor is...

What is on-farm hatching? With on-farm hatching, the eggs are hatched in the house where the broilers grow up. Food and water are immediately available for the...

"The transport of incubated eggs is of course much better than transporting chicks, you are not moving around living chicks that are sometimes without food and...

Jan Quirijnen (55) from Lage Mierde keeps broilers, 76,800 slow-growing chickens in three houses. Jan has extensively tested systems and products for the...

Marco Steinz (42) and his wife Doreen keep more than 200,000 broilers in Saxony, Germany. Doing business in the east of Germany is the same as in the...