Chick production method and chick production system
AssigneeNabel Co., Ltd.
InventorKunio NAMBU
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Abstract
A new chick production method and a new chick production system are obtained which are different from a conventional method in which all live eggs are collectively accommodated in a hatcher tray to develop chicks. The chick production method of the present invention divides mid-hatch eggs into a plurality of groups based on physical information measured for the mid-hatch eggs during a period from when the eggs are accommodated in a setter tray to when the eggs are transferred to a hatcher tray, and accommodates the mid-hatch eggs in the hatcher tray to develop chicks. In addition, a chick production system of the present invention includes a measurement unit, a sorting unit, and an accommodation unit, and the chicks are developed by each of a plurality of hatcher trays.
Claims5
A chick production method comprising:
- measuring physical information about mid-hatch eggs during a period from when the mid-hatch eggs are accommodated in a setter tray to when the mid-hatch eggs are transferred to a hatcher tray;
- dividing the mid-hatch eggs into a plurality of groups based on the measured physical information to accommodate the mid-hatch eggs in the hatcher tray;
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- adjusting temperature of the mid-hatch eggs accommodated in the hatcher tray to develop chicks.
A chick production system comprising:
- a measurement unit that measures physical information about mid-hatch egg accommodated in a setter tray or about the mid-hatch egg taken out from the setter tray;
- a sorting unit that divides the mid-hatch eggs into a plurality of groups based on the physical information measured by the measurement unit;
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- an accommodation unit that accommodates the mid-hatch eggs in a plurality of hatcher trays for each of the groups divided by the sorting unit,
- wherein chicks are developed from the mid-hatch eggs in each of the plurality of the hatcher trays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.