A one-day old chick has the potential to become a layer chicken, a broiler chicken or breeder. Given this versatility, the quality of day-old chicks matters, immensely, to the poultry business.
The reported overall goal of the Ghana Veterinary Programs Directorate (VSD) is to ensure that quality and healthy day-old chicks are produced through routine microbiological screening of the environs and hatch and to carry out vaccination of day-old chicks at hatchery or pre-hatch chicks in ovo.
New vaccine development in the poultry business is focused on day-old and in-ovo vaccination for adequate immune response. These modern immune complex vaccines can break through the maternal antibodies and give life-long protection with a single injection at the hatchery against many devastating poultry diseases. For example:
Spray-vaccination of Day Old chicks
(IB + ND + coccidiosis)
Injection of Day Old Chicks
(Mareks + Gumboro + ND)
From these perspectives and, most importantly, with the goal of VSD in mind, AA & S is equipped with the perfect entrepreneurial team to strategically position itself to implement a sustained supply to poultry farmers of improved breeds of healthy day-old chicks, vaccinated at hatchery or in-ovo against most of the devastating tropical poultry diseases. The chicks will be hatched from eggs derived from improved breeds of healthy parent stock.
AA & S will strive to offer after-sale poultry disease surveillance and training in strict biosecurity measures to poultry farmers, in an attempt to prevent and control devastating poultry diseases, including avian influenza.