PetersimePress Maximize your profit for life Average hatchery hatches 164,000 chicks per year more by using BioStreamer™ Re-Store | P.3 Conference | P.4 Poultry Performance Conference tackles current and future industry challenges Customer Cases | P.7 Solving protein shortages in Russia Innovation | P.9 Operational Excellence Technology™ “Our goal is to look at the bigger picture, not just the hatchery in isolation” Michel De Clercq Managing Director of Petersime Expertise | P.10 Using nature as a reference to optimize welfare and performance P.4 Events | P.13 Operational Excellence Days in Brazil: sharing knowledge and fun Edition: 001/2016 PetersimePress Editorial 03 Dear poultry colleague, Wherever you or your company operate in the poultry industry, either you will have a big impact on hatcheries or hatcheries will have a big impact on the performance of your operations. Hatcheries do not operate in isolation. They are important crossroads in the poultry chain. A hatchery is typically a place where we see a very high concentration of genetic material: hatching eggs – originating from multiple breeding farms – are brought together and the hatchery’s product is then dispatched to multiple locations, customers, even different countries and continents. Hatcheries are places where a lot of different inputs are brought together: not only hatching eggs, but people, disinfectants, vaccines, automation systems, energy, data systems, management expertise, inbound and outbound logistics. Clearly, by definition hatcheries are places where a lot of value can be created for the next steps in the value chains, but also where a lot of value or money can be destroyed if things go the wrong way. Petersime has as mission to maximize profit for life for their customers and offers products, expertise, service and support to achieve this mission. The goal of Petersime is to look at the bigger picture, not just the hatchery in isolation. Following this line of reasoning, we organized a Poultry Performance Conference to tackle the main challenges that the poultry industry is facing, to focus on the major drivers of the poultry industry of tomorrow. And this focus on the bigger picture will help us to direct our research efforts, our product development, our service levels towards hatchery solutions that are really meaningful. Hatchery solutions that will be an answer to real needs. Turn over to pages 4 and 5 to dig deeper into this. Enjoy reading. Paul Degraeve & Michel De Clercq Managing Directors of Petersime Featured 04 Expertise Using nature as a reference to optimize welfare and performance - By Steve Evans Conference 12 Poultry Performance Conference tackles current and future industry challenges 06 Expertise Assess chick quality by feathering By Frank Verschuere Customer Cases 13 Transavia affirms leading market position with Petersime 07 Customer Cases Solving protein shortages in Russia 08 Customer Cases Recent key hatchery projects around the world 09 Innovation Operational Excellence Technology™ 02 | 10 Average hatchery hatches 164,000 chicks per year more by using BioStreamer™ Re-Store Events Operational Excellence Days in Brazil: sharing knowledge and fun 14 Petersime Worldwide Petersime opens Sales & Service Offices in Malaysia and Russia 15 Petersime Worldwide Close to you worldwide PetersimePress | Featured Average hatchery hatches 164,000 chicks per year more by using BioStreamer™ Re-Store By using heat treatment during storage, an average commercial hatchery gains 164,000 chicks per year. These chicks are born within a shorter hatch window, are more uniform and of better quality. It also makes the logistic organisation within the hatchery easier. “Lots of hatchery owners do not know they lose easily more than 0.5% of their chicks due to egg storage losses. Or that 0.2% of all the eggs that are classified as infertile, are fertile in reality and that it is possible to turn these embryos into healthy chicks,” says Roger Banwell, Hatchery Development Specialist at Petersime. Egg storage times in hatcheries are often unavoidable because of logistics, markets conditions, variable order sizes, etc. Storing eggs for longer than three days, however, leads to losses of fertile eggs, less uniform chicks and extra logistic workload. The longer the storage times, the more hatchability and chick quality decrease and the longer incubation time gets. Petersime has developed the long-awaited answer to this problem: the BioStreamer™ Re-Store. The Re-Store machine warms up the eggs for short periods of time during storage, restoring a significant part of the hatch decrease you normally would have lost. “We have been using Re-Store now for one month. Hatchability is significantly higher, chick quality is visibly better, mortality is lower, we have less second grade chicks and the hatch window has shortened. I definitely recommend it. It makes a difference, most of all with eggs from a young flock.” Mr Marian Foltyn, Incubation Manager Výkrm Třebíč, Czech Republic 164,000 more chicks hatching in average hatchery An average commercial hatchery processing one million eggs per week, has 164,000 more hatched day-old chicks per year than the same hatchery that does not use Re-Store. The longer the eggs are stored, the bigger the gains. Why? Professor Eddy Decuypere from the University of Leuven, explains: ‘In the egg holding room, eggs are kept at or under a so-called threshold temperature of physiological zero for development. However, some partial, but not a global or proportionate development can take place at these subthreshold temperatures. Different cells or tissues in these early embryos may have different threshold temperatures for development, resulting in uneven or disproportionate development. If this disproportionate development progresses too far, it may interfere with embryonic viability and hence also hatchability.’ In nature, a mother hen will lay one egg every day, until her nest is complete. As a result, the older eggs will be warmed each time the hen returns to her nest to lay the next egg. These eggs thus undergo a short period of incubation every day. Professor Decuypere continues: ‘Periodic warming during prolonged storage allows the embryo to redress disproportionate development and ensures the required degree of embryonic development for all tissues in a proportional way.’ Following extensive research using accurate measuring systems such as OvoScan™ and with the cooperation of Aviagen Hilbersdorf, one of the world’s largest parent stock hatcheries, Petersime developed a heat treatment system that has proved to sustain the number of cells in fertile eggs during storage: BioStreamer™ Re-Store. In other words, Re-Store recovers early embryonic mortality and restores the fertility of eggs, gaining 0.3% to 3% extra day-old chicks per year. > Fig. 1 More uniform chicks More uniformity during incubation and after hatch is another positive effect of Re-Storing the eggs. Before storage, every embryo will be in a slightly different developmental stage. Some are more robust against storage than others. Re-Store will align the embryonic development. The result is a better synchronisation of embryos right from the start, which leads to a narrower hatch window and more uniform chicks. > Fig 2 & 3 Storage (days) 0.5% gain in hatchability for eggs from young flocks stored 3-4 days 0.3% gain in hatchability for eggs from older flocks stored 3-4 days 1% gain in hatchability for eggs stored 5-7 days 3% gain in hatchability for eggs stored 8 or more days Flock age (weeks) Fig.1. With Re-Store, you hatch 0.3% to 3% more day-old chicks per year Fig. 2. Heat treatment during storage aligns embryonic development and makes the eggs more robust against storage Number of chicks hatching Restore the fertility of stored eggs First chick Last chick Time Hatch window Fig. 3. Re-Storing eggs narrows the hatch window and makes chicks more uniform Easier production logistics Next to increasing the fertility of stored eggs and the uniformity, Re-Store makes logistics easier. Traditionally, different storage times require different incubation times. The hatchery manager needs to set some machines two hours earlier, others one hour later… This is not easy to organize and quite time-consuming to execute. Whereas with Re-Store, you do not need to apply different timings for different storage times anymore. To boot, planning when the personnel should come to help with chick handling, is easier to organize thanks to the narrower hatch window. ‘I clearly notice the difference between the hatchery’s results before we started using the BioStreamer™ Re-Store and after,’ says Mr Marian Foltyn, Incubation Manager at Výkrm Třebíč. ‘We now put all eggs that arrive from the farm in our Re-Store machine. I would recommend Re-Storing the fertility of your eggs to any other hatchery, whether they are in the broiler, layer or grandparent business.’ The broiler hatchery Výkrm Třebíč is located in the Czech Republic. This high-capacity hatchery was designed by Petersime, who also supplied all HVAC equipment, BioStreamer™ incubators, Embryo-Response Incubation™ technologies and BioStreamer™ Re-Store machines. It was built in 2013 as part of the vertical integration strategy of Agrofert, the holding above Výkrm Třebíč, to control the entire production cycle from hatching to slaughter. Výkrm Třebíč handles more than 40 million eggs per year. | 03 PetersimePress | Conference Poultry Performance Conference tackles current and future industry challenges The Petersime Poultry Performance Conference brought together leading poultry companies, opinion leaders and experts with one common interest: understanding and sharing views on current and future challenges in the industry. It is Friday, 4 o’clock in the afternoon on September 2nd. A boat full of people from leading poultry companies slowly navigates on the meandering river Lys. We are at the end of the second – and also last – day of the Petersime Poultry Performance Conference. I am intrigued by one big question. Petersime is known as an incubator and hatchery solution company. So why do they organize a Poultry Performance Conference rather than a Hatchery Performance Conference? Michel De Clercq, Managing Director of Petersime, explains: ‘Regardless of wherever a company operates in the poultry industry, it either will have a big impact on hatcheries or hatcheries will have a big impact on the performance of their operations. By definition, hatcheries are places where a lot of value can be created for the next steps in the value chain, but where a lot of value or money can be destroyed if things go the wrong way. The goal of the Poultry Performance Conference is to look at the bigger picture, not just the hatchery in isolation, and to discuss the big issues that are important for the future of the poultry industry.’ Dr Vinod Mishra, General Manager of Olam, who is standing next to me at the railing of the boat, affirms: ‘I expected the Poultry Performance Conference to be centred on hatchery management and the Petersime company. But it was not. And I love it. Instead, Petersime delivered us an overview of the whole poultry industry and its challenges.’ Each year, the Petersime Poultry Performance Conference brings together leading poultry companies, opinion leaders and experts to discuss the industry’s current and future challenges. This year the ‘on invitation only’ conference took place at Sint-Martens-Latem, near the Petersime headquarters in Belgium. With the Poultry Performance Conference, Petersime hopes to gain a better understanding of the real challenges of poultry companies, their mayor concerns and goals. This will help them direct their research efforts, their product development, their service levels towards hatchery solutions that are really meaningful, hatchery solutions that will be an answer to real needs. What is the verdict of the participants at the Poultry Performance Conference? Mr Koos Pretorius, Managing Director of Hy-Line South Africa, evaluates the Conference in one word: ‘Excellent!’ Mr Michael Siy, President of Canary Square Int’l Corp, sitting on the deck of the boat, affirms that both the topics of the speakers 04 | Meet the speakers Nan-Dirk Mulder Luc Levrouw Prof. Eddy Decuypere Prof. Arjan Stegeman Senior Industry Analyst Food & Agribusiness Research & Advisory for Rabobank from 2001 until 2004. Advises the bank on global commitments in the animal protein sectors. Nutrional Manager at DSM Nutrional Products NV. Committed to providing nutritional solutions for the production of quality food while ensuring the health and welfare of the animals. Topic: Economics of the poultry industry and world market Topic: The world needs more chicken, but how shall we feed them? Professor at University of Leuven, Belgium, and world authority in the field of incubation. Sharing his department’s expertise in hatching egg and embryonic physiology with Petersime since 2005. Professor at University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Researches epidemiology and infections in farm animals and advises the Ministry of Economic Affairs on animal welfare and animal health. Topic: How to feed and not eat our world? Topic: Avian influenza as an example of the changing ecology of poultry diseases Santiago Avendaño Servé Hermans Roger Banwell Jacques Van Outryve Global Director of Genetics at Aviagen. Responsible for the development, evaluation and implementation of new technologies within Aviagen’s breeding programmes. Managing Director of Business Unit Layers at Hendrix Genetics. Authority in the field of genetics. Heads the Hatchery Development Department at Petersime. Specializes in optimizing the incubation process from start to finish. European and agricultural journalist, member of the board of the international federation of agricultural journalists and lector Bio-Ethics and Agricultural Policy & Food Safety at VIVES, Belgium. Topic: The layer breeding business Topic: Selection criteria for future broilers as the panel discussions were most interesting: ‘As the participants flocked together from all over the world, we could exchange and discuss different and fruitful ideas.’ Just before we leave the boat, Mr Mohamed Imtiaz, Director of Midland Breeders, smiles at me and says: ‘You think you know a lot about the industry. But then you meet other people with differing opinions and you feel like that child again that still has to learn a lot. At the Poultry Performance Conference I could learn interesting things very fast. Moreover, I have met people that are now friends.’ Topic: Incubation: Using nature as a reference Conference moderator Fuelled by the positive feedback on this Poultry Performance Conference, Petersime says the company already looks forward to the next edition, where they will again tackle the poultry industry’s current and future challenges. PetersimePress | Conference From left to right: Roger Banwell, Willeke van den Brink, Stephanie Keuppens, Benjamín Ruiz, Akhmad Supriyadi, Prof. Eddy Decuypere, Mohamed Imtiaz, Carl Destrooper, Kristian Kristensen, Filip De Smet, Keshav Chandra Suresh, Sahin Aydemir, Michel De Clercq, Koos Pretorius, Sharad Gupta, Eng Abdel Naser Huseini, Jan Pauwels, Dr Vinod Mishra, Mohamed El Yakoubi, Prof. Arjan Stegeman, Paul Degraeve, Mahmoud El Anani, Harri Rosenberg, Mrs El Anani, Hugo De Ruyck, Luc Levrouw, Andrea Rossignoli, Sujit Menon, Philippe Boxho, Tineke Van Spanje, Iokin Zuloaga, Michael Siy, Wassim Sakr. | 05 PetersimePress | Customer Cases Transavia affirms leading market position with Petersime With investments in state-of-the-art technology and high-quality products, Transavia strengthens its leading market position in the Romanian poultry industry. Highest standards in manufacturing and sale Transavia, in Romania, has a market-leading position in the domestic market in the manufacturing and sale of fresh poultry meat products. Transavia is a fully integrated poultry producer, currently providing a full range of fresh and frozen chicken meat products, as well as further processed chicken products. With production facilities located in five Transylvanian counties (Alba, Sibiu, Brașov, Cluj and Harghita), Transavia aims for the highest standards in every process of manufacturing and sale of their products. Success recipe Petersime has been a long term partner of Transavia and is proud to be part of the expansion and renewal of their Sibiu hatchery. Transavia wanted to invest in state-of-the-art technology, which is why they have ordered new Petersime equipment. Constant investments and consolidated know-how are essential ingredients of Transavia’s success recipe. Mr Ovidiu Oprita, Technical Director Transavia; Mr Jan Pauwels, Area Sales Manager Petersime; Mr Ioan Popa, General Manager Transavia; Mr Silviu Popescu, General ManagerSipoServ – Petersime’s distributor for Romania. About Transavia The hatchery is fully operational since the end of summer 2016. It has a yearly capacity of 32 million eggs and is thereby the biggest operational hatchery in Romania. Becoming the market leader Mr Ioan Popa, General Manager of Transavia, states: “At the time, Avicola Brasov was the biggest poultry producer of the country and the first Romanian company equipped with Petersime hatchers. When we found out about the good quality of the Petersime material, we eagerly invested in the same technology, because we wanted to offer our customers high-quality products. Six years ago we bought Avicola Brasov, so Transavia is now the Romanian leader of the poultry market.” 06 | Transavia, the leader of the Romanian market for poultry meat products, was founded in 1991. Majority shareholder and general manager of Transavia group of companies is Eng. Ioan Popa, Ph.D. The facilities include a mixed feed plant, 18 broiler farms, 2 breeding farms, 2 hatcheries, 3 slaughterhouses, 1 meat processing plant and 1 vegetal division for grain production. Under Transavia’s brands umbrella, the two important food brands ‘Fragedo’ and ‘Papane’ are well-known and highly-appreciated on the Romanian market. Transavia’s export business has been developed mainly in the European Union: United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain and Hungary. PetersimePress | Customer Cases Solving protein shortages in Russia The inhabitants of the cold Magadan region face a lack of fresh, affordable poultry meat. The erection of the Dukchinskaya poultry farm in this far-away corner in Russia offers a far better, healthier and less expensive solution than the attempts to transport fresh meat to the region. Meet Magadan Solving protein shortages Better, healthier and less expensive Have you ever visited Magadan? Probably not. Few people have ever set foot on this relatively unknown place on the map in the cold parts of Russia. It takes eight hours to fly from Moscow to Magadan. The region encompasses 461,400 km², which is about the size of Morocco, and houses 182,726 inhabitants. Winters are long and cold and the soil remains permanently frozen. Permafrost and tundra cover most of the region. Buying fresh meat in the local shops can be challenging: it is hard to come by and it is expensive. So most poultry meat is delivered to Magadan in the form of frozen meat. Even so, the Russian Food Committee prohibited the use of deep-frozen poultry meat in schools and kindergartens five years ago. In spite of the efforts of the regional government to arrange regular deliveries, attempts to transport fresh meat from bigger cities to the region are irregular and often plagued by problems. As a result, there is not enough fresh poultry meat available on the plates of the local school children, causing a lack of protein, which is an essential cornerstone for a balanced development. To counter this problem, the Dukchinskaya poultry farm decided to build a hatchery, with the joint support of the mayor of Magadan, Mr. Juriy Grishan, and the governor of the Magadan region, Mr. Vladimir Pecheniy. Thanks to the incubation technology and services provided by Petersime, broiler and layer chickens are now hatched and distributed more easily in this far-away place on the map, thereby contributing to the public health issue. ‘It was not easy to deliver our equipment to the Magadan region, but our distributor Hartmann successfully arranged it,’ says Anna Nemtseva, Director Petersime OOO. The Dukchinskaya poultry farm aims to deliver 1,000 tonnes of meat annually, which will satisfy no less than 30 % of the demand of the region. Moreover, poultry is now easier to buy, including in the smaller cities, and more affordable. Each child will be able to eat 200gr of fresh poultry each week, which will contribute to their dietary requirements for more proteins, stimulating a better development in a more balanced way. In short, the installation of the Dukchinskaya poultry farm offers a far better, healthier and less expensive solution. As a company, Petersime is of course proud that our installations and services contribute to the welfare of the Magadan region. Thanks to the recent installation of the hatchery, each child will now be able to eat 200gr of fresh poultry meat each week. This will help meet their dietary requirements for more proteins and stimulate a better development in a more balanced way. | 07 PetersimePress | Customer Cases Recent Petersime installations around the world As a global market leader in incubation, Petersime has projects and installations all over the world. A selection of some of the latest installations: Olam (Nigeria) 08 | Integra (Poland) Ajwaa Agricultural (Libya) Hamood Alguhizah (Yemen) Type of fowl: Chicken Type of fowl: Chicken Type of fowl: Chicken Type of fowl: Chicken Type Setters: BioStreamer™ 12S* & 24S* Type Setters: BioStreamer™ 24S Type Setters: AirStreamerPlus™ 12S Type Setters: Conventional S1152 Type Hatchers: BioStreamer™ 8H* Type Hatchers: BioStreamer™ 8H Type Hatchers: AirStreamerPlus™ 8H Type Hatchers: Conventional H192 Setting capacity (eggs/year): 72,000,000 Setting capacity (eggs/year): 72,000,000 Setting capacity (eggs/year): 15,000,000 Setting capacity (eggs/year): 24,000,000 Agrícola Super Ltda (Chile) Jaguafrangos (Brazil) Delmo Chicken & Agro (Sri Lanka) Darwalla (Australia) Type of fowl: Chicken Type of fowl: Chicken Type of fowl: Chicken Type of fowl: Chicken Type Setters: BioStreamer™ 24S HD Type Setters: BioStreamer™ 24S Type Setters: BioStreamer™ 12S* Type Setters: BioStreamer™ 12S HD* Type Hatchers: BioStreamer™ 8H HD Type Hatchers: BioStreamer™ 8H & 4H Type Hatchers: BioStreamer™ 4H* Type Hatchers: BioStreamer™ 4H HD* Setting capacity (eggs/year): 53,500,000 (expansion) Setting capacity (eggs/year): 12,000,000 Setting capacity (eggs/year): 16,000,000 Setting capacity (eggs/year): 40,500,000 (phase 1) *equipped with Operational Excellence Technology™ PetersimePress | Innovation Operational Excellence Technology™ Optimized incubator features to maximize your return on investment. With the Operational Excellence Programme™, we want to assist you in applying best hatchery practices in order to maximize your profit for life. Petersime offers support, instructions and expertise, both remote and on site, based on following cornerstones: This programme is available regardless of the type of Petersime incubator installed in your hatchery. Additionally Petersime single-stage incubators (AirStreamerPlus™, BioStreamer™ and BioStreamer™ HD) are equipped with Operational Excellence Technology™ to incorporate these same values at incubator level. Maximize your incubation results Minimize your operational costs Achieve uncompromised bio-security Maximize chick quality beyond your hatchery Optimized pulsator fan The design of the pulsator blades has been improved, leading to a reduced energy consumption of 10%. The new blade design allows further reduction of the rotation speed of the pulsator fan without compromising the required airflow inside the incubator. This more efficient energy usage will reduce your energy costs. Operational Excellence controller The large 12” touchscreen controller allows for easy operation of the incubator. Daily routine tasks, changing and installing incubator programs, overviewing alarms and history have become easy and self-evident actions. The use of personal access badges enables accurate access control and traceability of all user interventions. This controller allows you to maximize your incubation results with an easy to use interface. Optimized cooling system A more efficient way of cooling ensures more uniformity and decreases the water consumption with 5%, thereby reducing the energy bill of your chiller. This cooling system is precisely regulated and considers the stage of embryonic development for optimal accuracy. This uniform and efficient way of cooling leads to a better chick quality and a reduction of your operational costs. | 09 PetersimePress | Expertise Using nature as a reference to optimize welfare and performance The Red Junglefowl – a species wherein the instincts of ancestors still run strongly in its blood – may teach us some basic knowledge about incubation. We made some very important observations by studying nature, such as the mother hen encouraging her chickens to subsist on their yolk sack reserves. Article by Steve Evans, consultant for Petersime Lost basic knowledge It has been an observation of mine during my forty years in the poultry industry that a basic knowledge of the behaviours and instincts of the native hen is being lost. This has come as an unforeseen consequence of the strict – and absolutely essential, I should add – biosecurity rules being implemented around intensively farmed poultry. One of the first selection criteria for staff being employed to work in the intensive poultry industry is that they do not keep poultry of their own. This means that people progressing through the intensive poultry industry only learn from their experiences and observations gleaned within that industry. I believe that it is a widely accepted fact that much inspiration for the intensive industry comes from imitating the native hen. Nature has set out the ground rules. The intensive industry pushes the boundaries. However, with this disassociation with basic, natural poultry knowledge, we have to a certain extent lost the ability to discern the difference between fact and fiction. I have often listened to industry experts, for whom experience was only gained within the confines of intensive farming, speak with great conviction about the behaviours and instincts of the native hen while being very far from accurate. as ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants and peafowl. It was a wonderful environment in which to develop a sound knowledge of fundamental poultry farming practice. Red Junglefowl genetics Five years ago, I became involved in a loosely formed program to help preserve the remnant Red Junglefowl genetics in Australia. The Red Junglefowl is the original chicken native to Southeast Asia, from which all modern day varieties of chicken are descended. The last imports of Red Junglefowl into Australia took place prior to 1952 before the government closed the country’s borders to prevent the introduction of diseases that were impacting agriculture elsewhere. Red Junglefowl in Australia had been largely a bird for fauna parks and zoos as they possessed very little commercial value. As such, they tended to breed indiscriminately and without any management of preserving bloodlines for the long term. When I became involved, there was very little knowledge in relation to pedigrees and there were tell-tale signs of interbreeding – the diminishment of sexual dimorphism for example. In this article I want to explore this observation specifically in relation to incubation. However, before I progress any further, I believe it behoving of me to supply a little background that justifies my standpoint. Farmer’s son I was very fortunate to grow up on a farm on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, that my father ran as a breed preservation centre for some of the lesser known and endangered varieties of poultry such as Silver Grey Dorkings, Faverolles, Andalusians and Langshans. Large numbers of visitors passed through the farm every weekend, many of them returning home with a sample of whichever breed of poultry had most appealed to their fancy. At its peak, the farm helped preserve over thirty different varieties of poultry in both their large and bantam form as well 10 | Red Junglefowl From this we concluded that the hen was merely encouraging the chickens to activate their gut processes while they were still subsisting on their remaining yolk sack. There was therefore the very real potential for a chicken to exist four days on its yolk sack before consuming any food of nutritional value. Instincts overrule We assembled breeding flocks with the birds available and set about a plan for keeping future generations healthy and viable. Initially, the plan was to collect eggs daily, store for up to a week and then hatch them artificially in incubators. And this has indeed been a practice carried out every year since. But the Red Junglefowl has the instincts of her ancestors running strongly in her blood and her primary desire is to lay a clutch of eggs, hatch them herself and then rear the offspring. This is her most passionate desire and faced with the prospect of having her eggs removed for artificial incubation, she PetersimePress | Expertise becomes cunning in her methods to hide her eggs from detection and keep them for herself. Before we knew it, we had numerous hens sitting broody in various concealments and the decision was made to leave them be. Once we knew that this was occurring, we paid more attention to the habits of the hens as they prepared their nests for incubation. A nest was never larger than twelve eggs. The hen laid a single egg each day until her clutch was complete. Eggs were laid at a similar time of the day, generally in the early morning. The hen would only visit the nest if she believed that she was doing so unobserved. She would sit on the nest for up to an hour while she waited for that day’s egg to be laid. In so doing, she was effectively pre-incubating all of the eggs for an hour every day. Remarkable attentiveness Once the clutch was complete, the hen would commence incubating her eggs. For the first week she was rarely observed away from her nest, instead sitting very tightly. The attentiveness of the broody hen to her nest during this period was particularly impressive. You could be inadvertently on the verge of stepping on a broody hen and she would not move a muscle. Nests were predominantly at ground level and we observed that nests on the soil were more productive than nests on timber or wood shavings. The assumption here was that a nest over the top of soil afforded the hen greater opportunity to control the environment around her eggs. A Red Junglefowl mother hen and her chicks shell protruding from beneath the hen’s body, or a chicken’s head poking out from among her feathers. During the entire process the hen invariably remained tightly in attendance of her nest. If she were interrupted, she would exhibit an aggressive pose of fluffed out feathers to appear larger, but only leave the nest with utter reluctance. Subsisting on yolk During the second week of incubation the hen could be observed to leave the nest every morning to eat, drink and defecate. Nevertheless, this period away from the nest was minimal. In some but not all cases the hen covered her nest with feathers and other nest material to make the eggs less visible. Whilst in attendance of the nest, the hen appeared to sit more lightly on her eggs, raising her body slightly. Our observation was that the hen was quite content for early hatching chickens to subsist on their yolk sack reserves for up to two days. She remained assiduously attached to the nest until her very last chicken had fully extracted itself. Chickens were invariably alert and healthy with perfectly healed navels. In many instances, once we knew that the hatching was complete, we removed the hen and her chickens to more secure lodgings. These lodgings were furnished with clean drinking water and a source of commercial chick starter crumbles. It was at this time that one of our most interesting observations was made. As hatching approached, the hen’s demeanour returned to what it had been during the first week. The hen’s attentiveness to the nest at time of hatching was particularly interesting. The first evidence of hatching might be a fragment of broken The hen of course differs from other varieties of bird such as pigeons, parrots, birds of prey, etc. in that she cannot physically feed her offspring but instead must teach them to find and consume food for themselves. Interestingly, what we observed was that the hen did not encourage her chickens to take the supplied feed. Instead of this, she would scratch amongst the floor litter and vocalize to encourage the chickens to peck. We observed that the chickens would eat food of very little if any nutritional value. From this we concluded that the hen was merely encouraging the chickens to activate their gut processes while they were still subsisting on their remaining yolk sack. There was therefore the very real potential for a chicken to exist four days on its yolk sack before consuming any food of nutritional value. Parallels I must reiterate at this point that these chickens were slow-growing Junglefowl – nothing in comparison to our modern-day commercial meat chickens in size and growth potential. Nevertheless, parallels can still be drawn in relation to phases of incubation and early feeding. Steve Evans has worked for one of Australia’s largest intensive poultry farming integrations and now operates a free range farming enterprise of his own. He is also consultant for Petersime. | 11 PetersimePress | Expertise Assess chick quality by feathering You can tell if day-old chicks are of good quality by examining the feathering. To assist you to continuously improve the quality of your chicks, we discuss the most commonly seen issues of poor feathering and where to look for the potential causes. Article by Frank Verschuere, Hatchery Development Department, Petersime Other key elements Increased flock age: when the flock age increases, the egg shell quality of the hatching eggs reduces. A reduced egg shell quality can increase the number of broken eggs in the baskets. Hatching eggs with an increased flock age have a higher risk to be contaminated as well. 12 | Chick quality becomes more and more important. A hatchery must produce qualitative chicks in order to meet the expectations of the farmer. The quality of dayold chicks can be assessed by looking at the feathering. Chicks should have a uniform appearance with clean and dry feathers free from any materials, such as egg yolk and contaminated fluid meconium. What follows is an overview of poor feathering that is most commonly seen in the field and the causes that create these issues, so you know how to start optimizing your incubation performance. Dirty feathers Wet feathers Poor uniformity of chick colour Wet feathers are often related to an incorrect temperature during the late setter cycle or during the transfer period. Generally, 100.0°F egg shell temperature is optimal for incubation. However, for very young, small eggs (with a low volume to surface ratio), 100.0°F egg shell temperature can result in excessive cooling. Whilst for very old, large eggs (with a high volume to surface ratio), 100.0°F egg shell temperature can result in inadequate cooling and overheating. Different breeds have different heat production curves. The heat production curve during incubation is also influenced by a number of hatchery specific factors: days of storage, pre-heating conditions etc. It is important to fine-tune the incubation profile to have an optimal egg shell temperature during incubation. A real-time egg shell temperature monitoring and controlling device, such as OvoScan™, is critical to ensure the correct egg shell temperature. This will result in a good hatch timing and hatch window, which will limit the amount of chicks with wet feathers at take-off. An incubator that is set with eggs that have a wide variety in storage times, will result in a wide hatch window where the late hatchers will still have wet feathers at takeoff. It is important that the incubators receive preventive maintenance to ensure that the machines are always working correctly during incubation. Large hatch windows can result in a general poor uniformity, what can also be seen in a poor uniformity of chick colour. Large hatch windows can be induced by poor setter uniformity or incorrect loading of the setter according to flocks with a different heat production. This is often the case with very old machines or with multi-stage incubation. Poor breeder house conditions or reduced collection times in the breeder house will contribute to this. Early hatches and/or delayed take-off result in dirty chicks (chicks covered with meconium). In older flocks, a too high egg temperature after transfer from setter to hatcher is not unusual due to inadequate cooling. High temperature after transfer increases movement in the baskets. When the infertile or contaminated eggs are not removed during transfer, these eggs can be damaged and broken by the movement of the chicks and this can result in dirty chicks. Flat feathering on head and neck Either too high or too low temperatures during the last days of incubation add to flat feathers on the head and neck. It is key to manage a good feathering by using the correct air temperatures related to the heat production of the chicks. Dirty chicks Flat feathering Increased storage time: increased storage time or a wide variety in storage times of different eggs set in one machine, results in a wide hatch window. If prolonged storage is necessary, it is ideal to perform a heat treatment during storage (SPIDES) with the BioStreamer™ Re-Store. This will limit the early embryonic mortality and result in a narrow hatch window. Candling at transfer: it is advised to remove all infertile eggs and dead embryos at transfer. This will prevent those eggs from breaking in the hatcher when the chicks are moving around or during take-off because of the automation. This will result in much cleaner chicks. Removing the ‘bangers’ or highly contaminated eggs is also very important since they increase the risk of cross-contamination and yolk sac infection significantly. Automation: automatic take-off and chick handling needs strict attention in both set-up and maintenance practices to ensure everything is running smoothly and chicks are feeling comfortable. It is strongly advised to perform regular basic checks and observe animal behaviour to ensure an optimal operation. Vaccination protocol: it is advised to change the needles on a regular base (recommendation dependent on supplier) and ensure a correct set-up of the vaccination device. Less accurate vaccination can lead to blood on the neck which can induce neck pecking. Learn more about chick quality The feathers can tell you more about the quality of day-old chicks and how you can optimize your incubation performance. You can also assess the quality by analyzing the navels, activity, behaviour, beak and legs. To learn more about chick quality assessment and how you can optimize your incubation results, surf to petersime.com/hatchery-development-department. Improving incubation and hatchery practices is a continuous process and if you have any questions, Petersime gladly assists you. PetersimePress | Events Operational Excellence Days in Brazil: sharing knowledge and fun From April 12 until April 14, the Petersime Operational Excellence Days took place in Maringa, Brazil. People from all over the country flocked together to get first-hand information on best practices in the field. It was an opportunity to share knowledge and get an update on the latest trends in incubation. What exactly are the Operational Excellence Days? It is an event organised by Petersime to share knowledge with hatchery managers and hatchery project managers, as well as with delegates from major poultry integrations and broiler and breeder companies. Topics covered the best practices on incubation, bio-security, maintenance and chick quality, with the focus on achieving Operational Excellence at every operational level in the hatchery. ‘The only way for the poultry industry in Brazil is up. The country has all factors to remain one of the most efficient producers of poultry meat in the years to come. Petersime wants to contribute to this success by bringing more knowledge and technology to our customers, keeping them at the forefront of incubation,’ explains Pieter Hemeryck, Petersime Director America Latina and one of the organisers of the event. ‘In the end we all share the common target, which is to maximize the profitability of the hatchery operations during their full life span,’ adds Antonio Geraldo da Silva, Petersime Area Sales Manager Brazil. Participants at the Operational Excellence Days got firsthand information on the best practices on the field: what are the requirements of the modern embryo? How do I restore the viability of the embryo? How do I perform a hatchery trouble shooting? This way, Petersime aims to be a lifelong partner for hatchery managers. Besides sharing knowledge and practical information, the participants shared some adrenaline. At the race track! What did the participants themselves think of the Operational Excellence Days? Evair Basso from BRFoods comments: ‘It was a great opportunity for me to participate in this event. Congratulations to the organization. Good selection of topics that were discussed in detail. One of the better events in the sector over the past years.’ Gelson Bruzamarello from GTFoods adds: ‘Excellent topics and good discussions. I hope Petersime can repeat this kind of event with regularity in the future.’ Rest assured, mister Bruzamarello, we will be back for more! Upcoming events EuroTier 15/11/2016 » 18/11/2016 Exhibition Grounds Hannover, Hannover, Germany Exhibitor: Petersime Booth: 02B26 Dawajine 22/11/2016 » 24/11/2016 Parc d’Expositions de l’Office des Changes, Casablanca, Morocco Exhibitor: Cidape Agrilivestock Myanmar 07/12/2016 » 09/12/2016 Tatmadaw Exhibition Hall, Yangon, Myanmar Exhibitor: Petersime Booth: 005 IPPE 31/01/2017 » 02/02/2017 World Congress Center Atlanta, Georgia, USA Exhibitor: Petersime Booth: Hall B,B7145 VIV Asia An exciting race at the carting track 15/03/2017 » 17/05/2017 BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand Exhibitor: Petersime Booth: H100, 1924 AgroWorld Uzbekistan 29/03/2017 » 31/03/2017 UzExpoCentre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Exhibitor: Petersime Booth: E144 S-Line Training French 17/01/2017 » 19/01/2017 S-Line Training 14/02/2017 » 16/02/2017 Hatchery Management Training 21/03/2017 » 23/03/2017 Consult the training calendar at the website: http://www.petersime.com/services/ The participants at the Operational Excellence Days | 13 PetersimePress | Petersime Worldwide Petersime opens Sales & Service Offices in Malaysia and Russia Petersime expands its presence in Malaysia and in Russia. It fits in the strategy to broaden the access to installation expertise and service worldwide. In doing so, we to try to ensure maximum business continuity for the entire lifetime of the hatcheries of our clients. Opening of Petersime Southeast Asia Sales & Service Office At your service: Petersime Southeast Asia Sales & Service team At Petersime, “maximize your profit for life” means that every Petersime employee strives to make sure that our customers run the least risks, have the lowest operational costs, face the least number of breakdowns and receive the best support. In order to do so, we opened a new office, based in Malaysia. This new office will allow us to be closer to customers in the project design stage and provide regional staffing of Field Service Engineers for more effective technical and installation support. In the many challenges a hatchery faces, a more regional oriented hatchery management and incubation support will help to achieve the desired performances faster. The further development of a dedicated spare parts warehouse will guarantee a more efficient delivery and swift technical interventions. Carmelo Ferlito Commercial Director Nick Chong Office Manager Jason Cormick Hatchery Specialist At your service: Petersime Russia Sales & Service team New Petersime Russia Sales & Service Office Simultaneously, the Petersime Sales & Service Office in Russia moved to a new building, with more storage space for spare parts and with more experts to assist our Russian customers and our Russian distributor Hartmann Company. ‘Ensuring our Russian clients have a strong local service, is of the utmost importance. To think global, but to act in a very strong way local, is key for our customers. So we can ensure the unlimited service we stand for,’ affirms Kurt Haeck, Project and Service Manager at Petersime. ‘By having a local warehouse for spare parts, certified Field Service Engineers speaking the language of our clients, helpdesk support by experts, and much more, we provide day in day out the Customer Care Commitment™ Petersime stands for.’ Anna Nemtseva Director Igor Baryshnikov Field Service Engineer Customer Care Commitment™ Our Customer Care Commitment™ starts at installation by providing highly skilled Field Service Engineers, Global Technical Supervisors to help customers start up their operations, continued support by helpdesk, elaborate documentation and instructions online, technical audits, easy and fast access to spare parts, hatchery management and product training. And that commitment we take on a global and local level, with the fully Petersime owned Southeast Asia and Russia Sales & Service Offices. 14 | Olga Krotova Chief Accountant Ivan Grigoriev Logistics & Office Manager “This new office will allow us to be closer to customers in the project design stage and provide regional staffing of Field Service Engineers for more effective technical and installation support. In the many challenges a hatchery faces, a more regional oriented hatchery management and incubation support will help to achieve the desired performances faster. “ Consult details of both offices on page 16. PetersimePress | Petersime Worldwide Close to you worldwide We are committed to making sure Petersime customers have the least risks and costs during the entire hatchery lifecycle, ensuring maximum business continuity and excellence in their operations. 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