Hatchery Training
Scope of the seminar: This comprehensive Hatchery Training is designed to equip poultry professionals with the essential knowledge and skills needed to optimize hatchery operations, ensuring the production of healthy, high-quality chicks. The training covers both theoretical and practical aspects, focusing on best practices, cutting-edge technology, and industry standards that are critical for successful hatchery management.
New Course available in Europe & Asia!
Key Areas of Focus:
– Embryology and Incubation Management
– Egg Handling and Storage
– Hatchery biosecurity and Sanitation
– Hatchery Equipment and Technology
– Hatchery Health Management
– Chick Processing and Quality assessment
– In-ovo sexing
– Hatchery Performance Monitoring
– On-farm hatching & early feeding
– Chick transportation
Who is it for: This training is ideal for hatchery managers, supervisors, technicians, and poultry professionals involved in the incubation and production of chicks. It is also beneficial for veterinarians, technical advisors, and those seeking to deepen their understanding of hatchery operations and management.
Language: English
Accreditation: This training will be acrredited by NGROD and WVEPAH.
Pricing
Workshop Only (3 days): € 1.500 (excl. VAT).
We provide a fully adapted streaming service for this training. Follow our training online from your (home) office.
Online Training (3 days): € 975 (excl. VAT)
Hotel, per night: € 110 * in Bruges, Belgium.
Dinner, per night: € 60.
Attendees are welcome to book their accommodation through us with our group-rate up to 2 weeks before the event.
* Hotel rates are subject to change due to the high demand during high season.
3-day Program: Respiratory
- Egg Development and the first 3 minutes
- Hatching egg management leads to qualitative hatching eggs
- Basic principles of incubation and daily embryonic requirement
- Candling and hatching, the last 3 days
- From chick pulling to chick holding, a journey through all treatments
- 10 days break out and hatch debris
- On farm hatching, a new alternative
- Nutrition influence on hatchability, eggs and chick quality
- In ovo, a new world opens
- Optimal embryonic conservation during long egg storage
- Welfare, a must in the hatchery
- The need for perfect chick transport
- Perfect chick quality, a need for a good start on the farm
- Gut health management in early chick life
- Biosecurity: from cleaning towards sampling
- Trouble shooting
- Practical session egg break outs
- Evaluation test for certification
Speakers
Hilde Van Meirhaeghe
DVM & Global poultry consultant
Hilde is a global Poultry Consultant at Vetworks since 2010. She’s previously worked with DGZ and currently working with several partners and projects.
Tiago Prucha
DVM & Global poultry consultant
Since 2018, Tiago works as a Poultry Consultant at Vetworks. Tiago is working on several projects: EU-H2020 Phagovet and the E-learning modules to the Broiler Signals manual.
Kris Van Daele
Poultry consultant
Kris Van Daele holds a Bachelor degree in Agriculture and Biotechnology and pursued further education with a postgraduate degree on Marketing from VLEKHO Business school. His professional expertise spans across technical and operational domains, complemented by strong leadership and management skills.
Photos
Accreditation from the Flemish Veterinary Board (NGROD)