
The health and quality of broiler chicks is among others determined by the quality of hatching eggs. If the quality is lacking, the change of problems during broiler production will increase. Broiler chicks get sick, the mortality is high, the feed conversion ratio is not very lucrative and the growth rate is insufficient. As breeder farmer your goal is to produce a high number of fertile eggs of the best quality. Only in this way your production will remain lucrative. In this article you will read some facts that influence the quality of hatching eggs.
Dave and Jamie Brock are owners of a new broiler breeder farm called Four Corners Poultry in Ontario, Canada. The farm complex has 4 houses, each with 6,500 broiler breeders.