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HatchCare The Hatcher with Feed, Fresh Water and Light

HatchCare The Hatcher with Feed, Fresh Water and Light

HatchCare The Hatcher with Feed, Fresh Water and Light

Product catalog summary
Introduction
HatchCare is a revolutionary hatcher designed to improve chick quality by providing feed, fresh water, and light immediately after hatching. This system addresses the needs of embryos during incubation and chicks post-hatching, ensuring higher hatchability and healthier chicks.

Key Features
  • MicroClimer Technology: Ensures optimal and uniform embryo temperatures, leading to higher hatchability and superior chick quality.
  • Immediate Access to Essentials: Chicks receive feed, fresh water, and light immediately after hatching, preventing dehydration and supporting growth.
  • Improved Living Conditions: The HatchCare Basket provides 40% more space than traditional systems, reducing stress and promoting animal-friendly production.

Technological Innovations
  • Temperature Control: Divided into 12 sections with temperature-controlled radiators, ensuring perfect conditions for each embryo and chick.
  • Laminar Airflow: Provides uniform airspeed and temperature distribution, enhancing embryo development and hatchability.
  • Egg Positioning: Eggs are placed point down in trays to prevent cracks and facilitate easier pipping.

Benefits
  • Early Feeding: Chicks have access to feed immediately, promoting optimal digestive and immune system development.
  • Fresh Water Access: Continuous supply of fresh water reduces dehydration and supports chick health.
  • Reduced Stress: Quiet environment and gentle illumination reduce stress during hatching and handling.

Specifications
  • Capacity: 84,480 eggs (+24h) or 95,040 eggs.
  • Dimensions: 11,920 x 7,370 x 2,700 mm.
  • Tray and Basket Dimensions: Tray: 673 x 580 x 120/51 mm; Basket: 673 x 580 x 164/119 mm.

Conclusion
HatchCare offers a comprehensive solution for hatching chicks with improved conditions and reduced stress, leading to healthier and stronger chicks. It aligns with modern demands for more animal-friendly production practices.
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The Hatcher with Feed, Fresh Water and Light The key to achieving predictable and constantly superior chick quality is to ensure that the needs of the embryo are constantly met during incubation, and those of the chick after hatching. It is generally accepted that the natural hatch window (the time between the first and the last chicks leaving their shells) is 24 to 36 hours. During this period, the newly hatched chicks have no access to feed, fresh water and light. However, their bodies are in the process of intensive development, during which they need water to prevent dehydration and feed...

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• MicroClimer technology for higher hatchability and superior chick quality. • Feed, fresh water and light for stronger and healthier day-oldchicks. • Improved living conditions for more animal-friendly production. HatchCare is a revolutionary new hatcher that move around in the clean,spacious post-hatch provides ideal conditions for optimal chick growth HatchCare Basket that is free of unhatched eggs and development. To start with, it is equipped and empty shells: it provides chicks with a full 40% with patented MicroClimer laminar airflow more space than traditional systems. technology: this...

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MicroClimer Technology for Higher Hatchability and Superior Chick Quality Incubating embryos at the optimal air in a flow of parallel air layers throughout the temperature is the most crucial factor machine. The airspeed is uniform throughout the to achieving good embryo development and superior chick quality. That’s why egg mass – from top to bottom as well as from front to back. HatchCare is equipped with HatchTech’s The laminar airflow ensures that the optimal patented MicroClimer Technology. temperature is homogenously delivered to every single egg. And since the eggs are placed in a tray,...

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Feed and Fresh Water for Stronger and Healthier Day-Old Chicks handling when working with a basket. The point- residual yolk sack, and it is very important that down positioning also makes it easier for chicks it actually is used for this. However, if there is no to pip out of the shell. Both of these factors have a external source of feed available, the energy in positive impact on the final hatching percentage. the yolk will just be spent on basic maintenance instead of to boost development. In a hatcher, chicks hatch within a specific “hatch window”. During this period, it is a general Early...

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Improved Living Conditions for more Animal-Friendly Production Chicks that are hatched in HatchCare to other systems, newly hatched chicks have 40% are completely supplied with the more space. This fits well with modern demands basic necessities of life – feed, fresh water and light. But the system also delivers other advantages that improve the chicks’ living conditions in early life, which benefit them in a variety of ways. for more animal-welfare-friendly production. A quieter, calmer environment HatchCare is illuminated inside (272 Lux at chick level), which makes it easy for just-hatched...

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Preserving energy during chick processing The way the HatchCare Tray and HatchCare Basket fit together functions as a natural separator. This makes the traditional automatic separator, as well as the counting machine, completely redundant. To determine the number of newly hatched chicks in the HatchCare Basket, simply count the number of unhatched eggs left on the HatchCare Tray. When chicks do not have to be handled or put through automated machines in the processing area, it further reduces the stress effects – and associated energy loss – that chicks experience in traditional systems. In turn,...

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