Hatchery

A new world’s best practice The brand new fully equipped Hatchery located at East Bendigo hatches all Hazeldene's chicken stock. Hazeldene's is truly self sufficient. producing.

Specially equipped Egg Transport trucks pick up eggs from the Breeder Farms and transport them to the Hatchery, for incubating and hatching.

Once hatched, the day old chickens are transported to broiler farms where the chicks grow until they reach the desired processing weight.

The only-recently completed sophisticated hatchery has been part of the long term development strategy of the company at the cost of millions of dollars.

The new hatchery has the capacity to process large numbers of additional birds per week, thus providing for the company’s ies growth well into the future.

This new facility also provides exacting quality control, establishing a new global industry benchmark in chick quality.

State of the art equipment from leading Danish suppliers, provides for single-stage incubating and hatching, with improved hygiene and maintenance of consistent conditions throughout the whole incubation period.

Backup power generation, water storage and air conditioning are all part of this new stand alone facility.