500 eggs in 100 weeks

Breeding companies worldwide are striving continuously to bring the production results of laying hens to a higher level. Dutch poultry farmer Simon van Loon realised 500.5 eggs per hen housed in 100 weeks. Only a few years ago ISA, the layer Business Unit of Hendrix Genetics, envisaged an unheard of increase in layer performance. “We were confident that layers would be capable of producing 500 Grade A quality eggs by 2020,” says Jeroen Visscher, Senior Geneticist at Hendrix Genetics. Today,