Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mountaire Farms building new poultry hatchery


    Mountaire Farms has started an $8.5 million project to build a new hatchery near Millsboro, Del., with help from a state grant.
    Mountaire officials recently received a $255,000 grant from the Delaware Strategic Fund to build the hatchery, expected to increase chick production from 750,000 to 1.8 million each week, the Cape Gazette reported.
    A company spokesman said the project is driven by customer demand.
    Mountaire, which has another hatchery in Princess Anne, Md., started planning the hatchery expansion last year, when officials decided to add on to an existing building in Millsboro. The 22,000-square-foot expansion will result in 85,000 square feet of hatchery space. Eggs to supply the new hatchery will come from Mountaire's breeder operation in North Carolina. Nearly 200,000 eggs will arrive at the Mountaire plant by tractor trailer.
    This is also an opportunity for chicken growers in the region, because along with the new hatchery comes the need for more growers. 

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