Family-owned fourth-generation US food and agricultural company Perdue Farms has decided to incorporate the on-farm hatching concept NestBorn into their broiler production and supply chain. This approach includes hatching day-old chicks in broiler barns instead of hatcheries.
In the summer of 2023, a demonstration NestBorn Egg Placing Machine was placed into operation by Perdue Foods near its headquarters on the Delmarva peninsula in order to efficiently transfer larger volumes of preincubated hatching eggs into broiler barns. It was the first time a NestBorn machine, which picks up candled and vaccinated eggs from setter trays in an automated and gentle way to then place those egg directly on the floor of a temperature-controlled broiler barn, was installed in the US.
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