May, 2010

Hubbard Polska celebrates its 20th anniversary with growing success!

Hubbard Polska, since many years the only primary breeder with GP farms and hatchery in Poland, celebrates its 20th anniversary with a strong position in its local market. The technical results of the Hubbard Flex and Hubbard F15 breeders and broilers during the last few years have lead to a continuous increase of market share in the Polish market.

Poland has now become one of the largest and most important poultry markets in EU. Broiler breeder placements have grown from 5 million in 2003 to nearly 7 million in 2009; an increase of 40% over the last 6 years! Hubbard has grown together with the Polish industry and supplies at least 1 out of 5 broiler breeders placed. The Hubbard sales volume in 2009 has increased with 33% against the volume in 2008; an excellent achievement of the local team led by Dr. Andrzej Rosinski (in the middle of the picture).

Like most of the Northern European countries, Poland is mainly placing standard-type breeders. However about 4% to 5% of the market uses dwarf-type breeders, predominantly for cages but also for floor systems. The Hubbard F15 “Feed saver” is clearly the leader in this segment of the market. On floor systems the breeder feed consumption per egg or chick produced is about 20% lower for the Hubbard F15 than for any standard-type breeder; a cost saving of about 10 kg of feed per breeder female. The Hubbard F15 broiler is also very well appreciated by the market and is often used by integrations producing broilers with a live weight of 1.8 to 2.2 kg. The FCR of the Hubbard F15 broiler is the best you can get.

Both the Hubbard F15 and the Hubbard Flex breeder show good productivity with a peak of 86-88% (F15) and 84-87% (Flex), good persistency, very good and persistent fertility and hatchability. Under the same conditions the Hubbard Flex achieves on average a cumulative hatchability of 84% at 60 weeks, while the main competitor reaches only a hatchability of 78% and the third player in the market about 81%.

The Hubbard Flex broiler shows very good growth, liveability and FCR. It can easily be used for the production of heavier broilers with a live weight of more than 2.5 kg in 40-42 days, or an average daily gain of more than 60 g/day. The Hubbard Flex broiler also gives a very good carcass yield (76%) and breast meat yield (26%). The breast meat yield is 0.5% higher than the main competitor in the market.

As well as the Hubbard F15 as the Hubbard Flex broilers are well recognised for its dryer litter. As a result of this and the higher activity of the broiler throughout the growing period the level of hock burn and footpad lesions is also significantly lower than any other competitive breed. These traits are becoming more and more important for the EU or the main retailers and give the Hubbard broilers a clear advantage with regards to animal welfare regulations.

During the recent Hubbard Polska seminar held from 12-14 May 2010, the 20th anniversary of Hubbard Polska and the success of Hubbard in Poland were celebrated together with more than 120 Hubbard customers from Poland.

For more information please contact:
Hubbard Polska
Pawlow Trzebnicki 71
55-110 Prusice
Poland
Tel: +48 71 31 26 230
biuro@hubbard-polska.pl www.hubbard-polska.pl