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The hatchery and hatching egg industry has performed minimally in Ghana over past two decades in Ghana. As a result, importation of day old chicks in Ghana has increased considerably. The objective of the current study was to provide inventory of actively operating hatcheries in Ghana and to discover opportunities on improvement in Ghanaian hatcheries. Survey was carried out on known and active hatcheries in Ghana to take inventory of human resource strength and qualification, hatchery output, capacity of operation, availability of parent stock, common hatchery practices maintained to increased chick quality, day old chick production and market outlets, rates of chick mortality, distance of hatcheries from breeding farms, hatcheries importation of eggs to hatch, types of incubators and the type of incubation systems in used and whether hatcheries provide any follow-up on farms that take chicks from them. Structured questionnaires administered to local hatcheries were assessed and all data expressed as percentage. The data collected showed that there are 9 hatcheries in Ghana operating actively in hatching broiler or layer chicks or both. While 7 hatcheries assessed showed averagely 29.9% utilization of their installed capacity, only two of these hatcheries were operating at 60 and 68.42% of their full capacity. The capacity of these hatcheries were 38,000 and 115,200 eggs respectively. The type of incubators used by all the hatcheries includes Chick Master, Buckeye, Asefac, Petersime, Westing and Beckier while the major incubation system practiced was the multistage incubation system. Only one hatchery had a single stage incubator. All these hatcheries reported using doing multistage incubation, all the incubators appeared to have single stage incubation principle. Three of the 7 hatcheries provided basic training for all staff members and additional three provided training for about 40 to 70 % of their staff. Only 3 hatcheries had their own parent stock, the rest bought or depend on other farmers or contracting them to supply fertile eggs for hatching. Major challenges reported were dead in shells, unsealed navels, twisted beak, wet chicks, and blind chicks among others. The study concludes that the major challenges confronting the hatchery industry in Ghana were more due to high incubation temperatures, low relative humidity, and lack of staff training on basic principles of incubation.

Assessing Incubation and Performance Defficiencies to Boast Broiler Production