April 18, 2022

Hy-Line adds chick storage room at Iowa, US facilities

Hy-Line International announced continuing investment in technologies to produce high quality chicks for its distributors.

The addition of a chick storage room at the company's Iowa, US production facilities is expected to optimise hatching and transportation stages so that chicks can reach their maximum genetic potential.

Chick storage rooms are designed to regulate the perfect environment including temperature, humidity and air flow that chicks need just after hatching. Such rooms are add-on to Hy-Line's hatchery facility, where chicks may remain before being delivered to customers around the world.

Although it is not used for every order, the storage room provides optimal conditions to match the departures of domestic and international deliveries.

"The chick storage room optimises chick quality and liveability of parent stock deliveries to our distributors," said Travis Schaal, Hy-Line's director of global production. "This investment shows Hy-Line's dedication to (both) the global (and) local mission of assisting customers to reach the maximum genetic potential of our varieties."

Hy-Line distributors and their customers directly profit from this new technology, the company said. It increases hatchery productivity in its Iowa production center, the starting point of all Hy-Line genetics to the world.

As a result, more high-quality chicks are produced and delivered to customers, directly benefiting distribution and commercial egg laying businesses.

- Hy-Line