In early August (7-11 August), we welcomed many customers from all over the world to our LOHMANN HATCHERY COURSE 2017. It was the first time that our colleague Davide Assirelli, a member of our Technical Service Team and our incubation specialist, was responsible for the seminar programme.

Hatchery business as usual

As usual the LOHMANN HATCHERY COURSE concentrated on hatchery-relevant issues. This time our various hatchery managers were given an opportunity to hold presentations on egg storage and S.P.I.D.E.S., egg handling and setting as well as hatch windows and chicks process.

External experts get the chance to speak

In addition, a number of external speakers were invited to give an overview of special topics. Dr. M. Boerjan, Pas Reform, talked about embryonic development in the hen and incubator/fundamentals of incubation and age of breeder hen, hatching egg, embryo and chick quality. The topics of ventilation in the hatchery and S.P.I.D.E.S. technology were presented by Mr Baker and Mr Hodgest from EMTech. Mr J. Cormick, Petersime, talked about the relationship between incubation and chick quality and Mr Abrahams from Emka informed the participants about egg weight loss and dry hatch.

Fun and leisure

In addition to discussing technical issues, we also made sure that fun and leisure were in plentiful supply. We organised a bowling contest and the participants’ singing voices were put to the test at our karaoke session on one of the evenings.

Final excursion

The LOHMANN HATCHERY COURSE was rounded off with an excursion to the Netherlands, with an opportunity to visit TerHeerdt and HatchTech.

Breeding for success – together!

It is always extremely important for us to be able to share our knowledge with our customers in order to ensure a successful business relationship. We hope we were able to do so this time too and that the participants enjoyed the event as much as we did.
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