Hatchery standards: Sharing knowledge and experience

On returning to a South American hatchery recently, I discovered that the hatchery manager I had worked with and seen grow into his role for the past three years had left. Together, we had made changes to conditions inside the hatchery and to incubation programmes, such that the hatchery was performing very well, with consistently high chick quality, narrow hatch windows and hatch abilities well above standard. The ‘new face’ that greeted me seemed very pleased to see me, admitting t