Cobb Germany

Cobb Germany bought its first VEIT vehicle in 2007. The truck for 72 000 day-old chicks was tested during its first journey in quite untypically hot European weather of 39°C. The chicks were delivered in perfect condition on that day, as they have been every time ever since then. In 2014 Cobb Germany got a second VEIT truck – a younger brother representing a new generation of VEIT vehicles with improved and optimized airflow, stronger cooling and even easier cleaning. Quality-oriented companies such as Cobb Germany value partners who seek progress and who can prove it by their improvements and innovations.

Cobb China

Cobb quality has also penetrated the Chinese market recently. After entering into a joint venture with Hubei Tong Xing Agriculture Co., new facilities were established in the city of Suizhou in Hubei province, west of Shanghai and the first parent stocks will be produced in 2016. Consequently, the need for the best quality transport solution for day-old chicks arose, corresponding with the highest standard of Cobb parent stock while preserving their feed efficiency, growth and health status. VEIT succeeded in the competitive tender and in 2015 supplied two trucks for day-old chicks (for 72 000 chicks) and two trucks for seven-week-old chickens. We are proud to be part of the Cobb expansion into China. 

Broiler of the Future – representative of Cobb in Russia

The growth of Cobb in Russia has been fast over the past several years. Supplying Cobb breeders to Russia from Holland and Germany had become too difficult and a new parent-stock hatchery in Stromyn, in the Moscow region of Russia, was established. This project of Broiler of the Future LLC, the only official representative of Cobb in Russia, to expand parent stock production in Russia provides significant advantages in chick quality and lower transport costs. The delivery fleet taking chicks across a vast area of the Russian market is formed by three VEIT semitrailers with the EcoTransport technology, produced in 2012 and 2013.

Dekkers Transport is a Dutch company and as such is located in the Mecca of European producers of vehicles for day-old chicks. Yet on the basis of cogent arguments Hans Dekkers, owner of the company, decided to test the features and quality of VEIT vehicles as well. He began with a small VEIT 12 truck for 40 000 day-old chicks. As he became convinced that VEIT with the EcoTransport technology works both reliably and very economically, in 2014 – 2015 Dekkers Transport purchased three semitrailers with a max. capacity of 150 000 day-old chicks and VEIT 26 with a max. capacity of 83 000 chicks. A fourth and a fifth semitrailer has been ordered for 2016.

Charoen Pokphand Foods, the leading agro-industrial and food conglomerate in the Asia-Pacific region, decided to invest in a modern, high-tech transport solution for day-old chicks and got a fleet of VEIT day-old chicks vehicles. Extremely high temperatures and humidity of this tropical region demand machines with powerful cooling and a highly optimized ventilation system, perfectly safe for the chicks even in this extreme climate. VEIT vehicles have proved that they can do the job with ease.

Two VEIT semitrailers produced in 2008 and 2014 are used by Hungarian transport company S. Cargo Kft, which delivers day-old chicks for Aviagen Kft, part of the Aviagen group. We are happy that Aviagen, one of the most recognized and respected names in the poultry industry, uses VEIT technology, too. What's more – that it is satisfied enough with the quality to come back again after six years and, together with their business partner S. Cargo, order another VEIT vehicle.

VEIT scales are designed for all types of poultry – from day-old chicks to the biggest birds. User-friendliness and the highest accuracy of the scales are also perfectly suitable for weighing turkeys. Hybrid Turkeys have installed over 60 BAT2 Full automatic poultry scales in its facilities in France. The global market leader in the turkey industry chose the wired connection of the scales for its project, using the RS485 line.  Hybrid Turkeys has been very satisfied with the application of VEIT automatic scales and pleased with the service provided.

Weighing the birds is vital for flocks management. At Cobb they know that BAT1 scale is the right tool to do this important job. You can see in one of Cobb´s great video guides – Commercial Yield Testing, how BAT1 can help you with the management:

Amongst important activities of modern Austrian poultry company Eiermacher belongs also production of pullets. Originally manual weighing was used to get information about the birds´ weight from over 50 livestock farms spread over a large area. But it proved not to be the right solution as most of the farmers tried to avoid the weighing and supplied wrong or even faked data. That´s why Eiermacher decided for another solution – automatic weighing with BAT2 Full scales equipped by GSM transmission system. By now ca 50 scales have been installed on its farms. Every day, an SMS with daily statistics is sent automatically from each scale. All the SMS are received to a central computer in the central office and converted into various reports and graphs. This is the way how Eiermacher gains fresh and accurate data from all its farms today and is able to react instantly.

Ishii Co., Japanese distributor and chick producer and a part of the extensive Ishii Group, is a future and modern technology oriented company that besides other things imports innovative goods from all over the world to Japan. Ishii Co. has a net of 28 parent stock farms where each of the farms is equipped with minimum one manual poultry scale BAT1. All data gained by weighing are gathered in a collective flock database and used for bird management and comparison of performance. Recently Ishii Co. decided to test also BAT2 Full scales. We hope they will appreciate the automatic scales just as the manual ones.