The meeting featured presentations from various key opinion leaders on the advantages of moving vaccination into the hatchery. This is made easier by new technology in vaccine design with dual-construct vaccines as described by Dr Ian Tarpey, AVP Research and Development MSD Animal Health.

Here is Dr Zavala of Avian Health International talking about the role hatchery vaccination has to play in the future of our industry.

In addition, information about new technologies in hatchery management and design was shared by Dr Ron Meijerhof, Managing Director of Netherlands based Poultry Performance Plus, and Derek Detzler of Trillium Hatchery--Ontario, Canada.