After 7 years of R&D and intensive commercial testing, HatchTech proudly introduces its revolutionary product: HatchBrood. A real life version of HatchBrood will be introduced during the VIV Europe, 20-22 April 2010, Utrecht, the Netherlands, after which it will be commercially available for the industry.

Crucial factors during the brooding period
The first days of a chick’s life (brooding period), a chick is not able to regulate its own body temperature. Practical experience learns that controlling broiler house variables, such as air temperatures, floor temperatures, air velocity and humidity levels is difficult. Not controlling these variables results in delayed start-ups of chicks, uncertainty of future growth curves and lower uniformity.

The concept
HatchBrood is a revolutionary system that controls the crucial variables during the brooding period.
After hatch, d.o.c´s are placed in the HatchBrood system. Here, chicks have access to fresh water, air and feed. The HatchBrood system guarantees controlled air temperature and air velocity, which assures optimum chick body temperatures throughout the complete system. The chicks will start eating and drinking directly after placement. After 4 days they are transported to the farm for the remaining of their production cycle.

 
Chickens have access the fresh water and feed                                                        

 
Fully controlled environment by HatchTech´s patented radiators

HatchBrood: Ultimate brooding control
HatchBrood fully controls the crucial brooding variables: it assures that each chicken can express its full growth potential. This, resulting in better FCR’s and improved overall uniformity at the end of the growth period.

HatchBrood, part of the HatchTech Group
In 1995, HatchTech introduced the patented concept of perforated radiators in incubation technology: the laminar airflow resulted in optimum and uniform chick quality. HatchTech successfully applied this concept to One-O-Fours´ HatchTraveller, a transport systems for d.o.c´s, that secures chick quality during transport, also during extreme circumstance. Now, the successful HatchTech concept is applied to HatchBrood, a systems that controls the crucial variables during the brooding period, which results in better FCR’s and improved overall uniformity.

More information?
info@hatchbrood.nl, or info@hatchtech.nl

 

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