Management practices at the R.F.M. Commercial Hatchery Farm / Danilo L. Ferrera.

Special Problem (BSA--Animal Husbandry) Don Severino Agricultural College

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College of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Natural Resources (CAFENR)

This study was conducted at R. F. commercial hatchery farm in Tagaytay City. Its purpose
was to deter-mine and to gather information about the management practices employed in the
hatchery form for possible guidance and reference for those who may like to engage in this
business.
The farm occupies a total area of 2/3 of a hectare and had an average monthly output of
230,000 chicks. The strain produce were all Peterson broilers.
One, office five setter machines and fifteen hatcher machines were the facilities in the
hatchery. The project was run by one farm manager, two supervisors, three clerks, nineteen
workers and three security guards
The hatchery farm used a chick master incubator having a capacity of 74,000 eggs with
an average hatch of 85 percent for every setting. Eggs were stored in a room with a
temperature of 65 to 70°F for two to four days before setting in the incubator. _Before the eggs
were set in the incubator they were treated through fumigation process using formaldehyde
powder with 90 percent purity and 38.to 40 percent potassium permanganate. Candling was
usually done on the seventh day and fourteenth day of incubation. After 18th day or 19th day of
incubation, the eggs were transfered from the incubator to the hatchery where they were kept
for another six hours in the hatchery. The incubators were disinfected after every hatching time.
No disease had been observed in the hatchery. Antibiotics such as terramycin injectible
were given intramascularly to chicks to make them resistant against pneumonia. After sexing
and vaccinating, the chicks were delivered either to the breeding farms owned by the
corporation, to the contract buyers or to contract growers. The chicks were sold by the hundreds
with an extra four percent-per hundred given free to the buyer.
Except for the occasional breaking of eggs at setting, no serious problem was met in the
hatchery.

Submitted to the University Library 03-10-1980 SP-103