This document discusses the key operations involved in running a hatchery. It describes securing hatching eggs from sources like breeder hens, flock owners, and other hatcheries. Important hatchery operations include handling and storing eggs, setting eggs, filtering air in incubators, processing hatched chicks, and sanitation procedures. Key steps involve cooling, grading, and setting eggs, hatching chicks, sorting chicks, and delivering them to farms. Maintaining cleanliness and proper documentation of all processes is also emphasized.

1. OPERATING
THE
HATCHERY

2. All typesof activitiesthat involvesin production
of largenumber of economical and health chicks
from hatching eggsiscalled Hatchery Operation.
Nature of Operations
 Planned Operations
 Emergency Operations
Types of Operations
 Preliminary operations
 Start up operations
 Running operations

3. Important Hatchery Operations
 Securing the Hatching Eggs
 Handling the Hatching Eggs
 Setting of hatching eggs
 Filtering Recycled Airfrom Hatcher
 Eggs Containing Embryos forHuman Consumption
 AfterChicks hatch
 Chick Delivery
 Hatchery Sanitation
 Hatchery Disposal
 Feedback of all operations

4. A-Securing the Hatching Eggs
 Sources of Eggs
Hatchery owns the breederhens
Hatchery secure eggs from flock owners
OtherHatcheries supply eggs
Hatching egg-producing companies

5. Contii…
 How eggs are delivered to the Hatchery
eggs deliverby truck orrail orair
Following rulesmust rigidly observed
Disinfect the truck driverand helper
Disinfect and fumigate the all trucks
Only MG orMS negative may be placed in
truck

6. Contii…
 Containers to Hold Eggs
Eggs collected in plastic flats, placed in cases and
delivered to hatchery
 Egg Delivery Record
the delivery record should include
1-Sources of eggs (flockowners etc)
2-Date eggs are received
3-House, pen, orflocks numbers
4-Breed orline of Chickens involved
5-Numbers of cases ornumbers of dozen of eggs

7. B-Handling Hatching Eggs
 Cooling Hatching eggs(65 0
F & 75%,H)
 Grading Hatching eggs
Broiler type
Layer type
Breeder type
How Hatching eggsaregraded
 Trying Hatching eggs
 Warm eggsprior to setting (720
F)
 Setting hatching eggs
 Variability in hatching time

8. C-Filtering Recycled Airfrom
Hatcher
 Microorganism from hatching eggsand hatchery debris
 99% organism removefrom thisprocess
 Broiler chicksareheavier at 4th
week of agein filtered
hatcher than nonfiltered hatcher

9. D-Eggs Containing Embryos for
Human Consumption
 Balut or Embryo eggs
 Stored in refrigerated
 12th
and 14th
daysembryo eggs

10. E-AfterChicks hatch
 Drying Chicks
 Chick-holding room Temperature& Humidity
 ChicksBox Sizes
 Chicksbox Pads
 Calculating thenumber of chickshatched
 Hardening thechicks
 Grading thechicks
 Sexing thechicks
 Extrachicks
 Record thedata

11. F-Chick Delivery
 Chickstrucks
 Delivering chicksto thefarm
 Shipping chicksby air

12. G-Hatchery Sanitation
 Processof disinfection of hatchery
 Disinfected and chemical
 Fumigation

13. H-Hatchery Disposal
 Infertileeggs
 Non-hatched eggs
 Dead chicks
 Culled chicks
 Nutritivevalueof hatchery waste

14. Otherconsiderations
 Feedback of all operations
 Record Keeping of all Operations