One of Europe’s largest independent hatcheries, P. D. Hook (Hatcheries) Ltd, has recently expanded its hatchery unit in Great Yarmouth (UK) with an extra setting capacity of 24 million eggs per year.
On October 24th 2012, Prof. Eddy Decuypere, world authority in the field of incubation, retired from the University of Leuven, where he worked at the department of Biosystems, Division of Livestock-Nutrition-Quality at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering. Mr Decuypere and his department have been sharing their expertise in hatching egg and embryonic physiology with Petersime since 2005.