Hy-Line Colombia: Leading the Andean region
An overview of Colombia's largest day-old chick provider
26 March 2025
2 minute read
By: Hy-Line Colombia is the largest day-old chick provider to the Colombia day-old chick market, due to the Hy-Line Brown’sgenetic attributes, excellent after-sales service, and because they offer the highest quality chicks to the market.
Their commitment to sustainability was recently recognized by the National Federation of Poultry Farmers of Colombia (FENAVI) under the Colombian Institute of Technical Standards and Certification (ICONTEC) with the Diamond award level due to the company’s commitment to the environment, social development of their employees, economic strength generated ethically, and animal welfare.
Hy-Line Colombia has also achieved compartmentalization for the hatchery and breeding farms for freedom from Newcastle Disease, Avian Influenza, Salmonella and Mycoplasma. The company is also SGS certified under ISO 14001, 9001, and 45001.
Hy-Line Colombia focuses exclusively on the marketing of day-old layer chicks. The company places the latest Hy-Line genetics on its company-owned all-in, allout breeder houses, and chicks are hatched in their ultramodern singlestage hatchery.
Chicks are graded into three sizes, promising weight uniformity of more than 90% with each group, and infrared beak treatment is available from their antibiotic-free hatchery.
Hy-Line Colombia offers chick placings of up to 180,000 chicks via their company-owned environmentally-controlled delivery trucks, ensuring that the chicks maintain exceptional quality and post-hatch performance.
The company prides itself on maintaining timely deliveries of chicks of the highest quality with key performance indicators—99.99% flock livability upon arrival and 99.70% through seven days!
The Hy-Line Colombia sales and technical team offers service for the entire life of the flock. The team consists of seven doctors of veterinary medicine who are specialists in management, health and nutrition. Among the team, there is more than 200 years of experience combined, and most of that is specifically with Hy-Line layers.
The company offers their customers egg quality laboratory service and comparative flock performance evaluations on an anonymous basis.
Their immense database houses records from millions of layers over the last decade-plus, allowing the technical team to assist customers to evaluate flock performance vs. local production standards and make adjustments to realize the full genetic potential of its Hy-Line genetics under local realities.
Hy-Line Colombia is committed to ensure that the genetics it delivers and the services meets and exceeds the expectations of the Colombian poultry farmer, guiding them through technical assistance to produce the highest quality table eggs at the best price.
