LPM 221: Commercial Poultry Production and Hatchery Management (1+1)

HATCHERY ROOMS/STRUCTURES

• Hatchery rooms must be adequate in size. Usually, hatcheries of medium size will hatch chicks twice a week, but large hatcheries will hatch more than two hatches per week.
• Consequently, hatching schedules will affect the size of some rooms in the hatchery.
• The following are the rooms / structures available in the hatchery for efficient functioning:
  • Shower room
  • Getting hatching eggs into the hatchery
  • Fumigation room
  • Egg holding (Egg-cooler) room
  • Pre-incubation warming room
  • Setter room
  • Egg candling (Dark) room
  • Hatcher room
  • Chick-holding room
  • Wash room
  • Clean room
  • Other hatchery rooms
• Depending on the type of the hatchery, other rooms are often found, including
  • Small office
  • Lounge and lunch room
  • Rest room
  • Tool room Generator room
  • Box storage room
  • Electrical control room