New Hy-Line breeding facility in South America
Hy-Line International continues its global vision by expanding the genetic breeding program into South America.
12 March 2025
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By: Hy-Line International continues its global vision by expanding the genetic breeding program into South America. In late 2023, Hy-Line opened its newest research facility outside of the USA in the state of Sao Paulo, Brasil, housing pedigree lines used to produce Hy-Line commercial products. This strategic move will ensure the continuity and growth of the company’s operations while mitigating the risks of future business operations to best serve Hy-Line’s world customer base.
This expansion will produce a treasure trove of new data which the research group will leverage to provide accelerated genetic gains in all of the Hy-Line varieties. From a worldwide product supply standpoint, the investment allows more flexibility and an additional source of supply of the most up-to-date genetics.
In addition, expanding the breeding program and stock beyond the USA mitigates the risk associated with the increased presence of diseases like avian influenza plaguing world markets. This further assures safety of elite Hy-Line stock with yet another location with the highest biosecurity precautions in place.
This facility will help Hy-Line in our commitment of quick, reliable, high quality supply of breeding stock to our worldwide distribution partners and assure the long-term success and sustainability of the business. The company "Layer Genetics Brasil" will oversee the facility under the ownership and direction of Hy-Line International.
This expansion into Brasil is part of an overall 'internationalization effort' in the breeding program by Hy-Line in recent years, preceded by investments in other overseas research efforts in India and Mexico. The farms allow Hy-Line to develop birds that better adapt to local conditions and feeding protocols. In addition, the expansions provide opportunities to evaluate Hy-Line varieties for specific traits such as nesting behaviour which has grown to be a significantly important trait as non-cage production grows in popularity.
These pedigree farm investments, together with the long-established field-testing program championed by Hy-Line, has helped the research team to develop robust layers which live and thrive under less-than-ideal conditions.
The breeding program expansion beyond the USA and Mexico, Brasil and India puts Hy-Line pedigree stock under evaluation in four of the world's top 10 egg-producing countries. Hy-Line white, brown and tinted egg varieties are developed to meet egg producers' need worldwide as part of Hy-Line's continued efforts to help customers achieve production and sustainability goals.
Hy-Line will continue to invest internationally to assure a reliable supply of the latest genetic product, reduce the risk of any local impact to pedigree flocks by decentralizing the genetic supply to multiple worldwide locations, and develop varieties that more closely match each country's producers' demands.
