Tegel Foods Realises World’s Best FCRs with Petersime
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand’s number one poultry integrator, Tegel Foods Ltd., has recently constructed a brand new broiler hatchery in Christchurch. Petersime was selected as the supplier of incubators and HVAC equipment via distributor UPEC.
2 September 2013
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The new hatchery for chicken broilers has a total yearly setting capacity of 30 million chicken eggs, obtained with 30 BioStreamer™ 12S incubators and 15 BioStreamer™ 4H hatchers. On top of that, some setters and hatchers for turkeys have also been installed.
Tegel Foods is proud to be amongst the poultry producers with the lowest feed conversion ratios (FCRs) in the world. What’s more, the company is working to bring the average FCR of its birds further down from 1.5. One of the methods to achieve this is good hatchery management.
"Good feed conversion ratios of broilers start with a beneficial development of the embryos in the egg," said Mr Leonard Hawley, Hatcheries Manager at Tegel Foods. "Embryo-Response Incubation™ is the method of choice to monitor and control this vital aspect of hatchery management."
