Good hatchability is no accident with Pas Reform

摘要

The production of high quality day olds requires incubation conditions which exactly meet the needs of the growing embryo. In modern poultry production optimum incubation conditions vary between eggs of different kinds of birds or from different stages of lay. Pas Reform is an independent international company, which has specialised in the development of innovative hatchery technologies since 1919. The company is one of the top three independent hatchery equipment manufacturers of the world. Pas Reform owes this position to its longstanding research into the biological and physical aspects of embryo development and physiology. To adapt the incubation conditions to the different types of eggs the hatchery manager needs to have maximum knowledge about, and control over, the interaction between incubator environment and chick quality. For that reason the combination of single stage incubation and detailed record keeping becomes more and more important in the modern hatchery. Pas Reform has anticipated both developments with its modular single stage setter and a package of tools to optimise incubation programs.