Atlantic Poultry Research Centre (APRC)

4 Rooms (24 pens/ room) – Broiler Chickens, Turkeys

Broiler Meat Production

4 Rooms (2496 bird capacity)

• 24 pens/room
• 26 broilers/pen
• 624 broilers/room

Turkey Meat Production

4 Rooms (1152 bird capacity)

• 16 pens/room
• 18 turkey hens/pen
• 288 turkeys/room

Metabolism and Digestibility

10 portable cage units/room (Total of 16 units)

• 8 cages/unit
• 6 broilers/cage
• 480 birds/room

Controlled Environment Rooms

2 rooms (Capacity 288 broilers)

• 3 portable cage units/ room
• 8 cages/unit
• 6 broilers/cage
• 144 birds/room

Conventional Production

(2400 laying hen capacity)

• 4 rows
• 3 tiers
• 480 cages
• 5 birds/cage

Colony Cage Production

(456 laying hen capacity)

• 1 row
• 3 tiers
• 12 cages
• Furnished
• Nest box
• Perches
• Dust bathing area
• Claw shorteners

Multi-Use Room

(400 laying hen capacity)

• Portable conventional cages (10 units – 8 cages/unit)

Controlled Environment Rooms

• 8 rooms (Capacity 640 laying hens)
• 2 portable cage units/ room
• 8 cages/unit
• 5 Laying hens/cage
• 80 laying hens/room

Hatchery

• 2 incubation rooms (capacity 8640 eggs)
• 4 single stage incubators/room
• 1080 eggs/incubator

• Provincial Inspection
• Electric stun
• Air/immersion chill
• Cutup capacity

• Load cell suspended equipment
• Hammer mill
• Roller mill
• Liquid application
• Steam pelleting
• Small batch mixing

• Small batch pelleting (steam)
• Oven drying capacity