HatchTech proudly announces the introduction of its new product HatchBrood during VIV Europe, 20-22 April 2010, Utrecht. HatchBrood is a revolutionary system that controls the crucial variables during the brooding period, ensuring improved technical results of 4 day old chicks and a the lowest energy consumption.
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 a controlled air temperature and air velocity, which assures optimum chick body temperatures for all chicks. 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 acces the fresh water and feed Fully controlled environment
By HatchTech's patented radiators HatchBrood: Ultimate brooding control HatchBrood controls the environmental aspects during the brooding period, and therefore ensures optimum and uniform bodytemperatures of the chickens. This wil result in better technical results; (better growth rate, uniformity, and lower mortality) at 4 days. Moreover, a good start results in a increased predictability of technical results.
Lowest energy consumption – positive contribution to CO2 footprint HatchBrood has been designed for a minimum energy usage. Compared to broiler houses, in which a high volume of m3 air has to be treated, HatchBrood works with a significant lower energy usage. Less CO2 is produced, leading to a positive contribution to sustainable poultry farming (CO2 footprint).
HatchBrood, part of the HatchTech Group In 1995, HatchTech introduced the patented concept of perforated radiators in incubation technology: the guaranteed laminar airflow resulted in optimum and uniform chick quality. HatchTech successfully applied this concept to an other product: 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.
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info@hatchbrood.nl, or
info@hatchtech.nl More information about this press release? Please contact:
Mirella van de Sant MSc.
HatchTech Incubation Technology
mvdsant@hatchtech.nl Tel +31 318 512 511
Mobile: +31 65182 9226
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