In November 2011 Sun Daily Foods (SDF) China has signed a consultancy contract with Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH for technical co-operation through technical services and support to establish a “Lohmann Grand Parent Demonstration Farm”. The desire is to have a reliable source for healthy and quality Parent Stock chicks thru their own integrated system.


In the first phase technical visits of Lohmann experts were agreed in the field of Genetics, Management, Hatchery and Veterinary issues to assist the planning of the Grand Parent farm. After completion phase two started to include training, checking the operations and providing recommendations. The final step was the inspection of the new established farms.

SDF is very well recognized by customers. This April they organised a well prepared two days customer event hosting more than 450 people including Parent Stock and Commercial chick producers, Government representatives and other officials. The second day a seminar was organised with various presentations including the ever present topic of Avian Influenza, status and prevention. Javier Ramírez, General Manager of Lohmann Tierzucht was addressing the audience by introducing Lohmann Tierzucht and the Erich Wesjohann Group. Furthermore, after visiting the GP and PS farms in Mianyang, he was glad to confirm the state of the art stand ard combined with a very strict and enforced bio security protection.

The short history of Sun Daily Farms is even for Chinese standards very impressive. They started in 1999 in Mianyang with the first 1.8 million layer operation and a Parent Stock operation for 300,000 chicks The first expansion followed 6 years later in Jiangxi province adding 1.3 million layers and a second Parent Stock farm at Xiangyang/Hubei province with additional 100,000 PS. 2012 SDF was the first company to introduce branded eggs in China. They are suppliers to supermarket chains and also to the food industry. The latest expansion was last year in Guangyuan with 300,000 PS and a state of the art Grand Parent operation.

Today SDF keeps totally 4.5 million layers and 1 million Parent Stock chicks in various provinces. Within the next three years they want to expand to 10 Million own layers and about 40,000 Lohmann Grand Parent chicks.

Michael B. Seidel,
Sales Director