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Feed production

Each year, Gallus Group produces 24 thousand tonnes of feed for its broiler chickens in its feed mixing plant. The feed is hygienised and de-salmonised at high temperatures, and its quality is constantly inspected in the company’s own laboratory.

Parent pair rearing

We are committed to ensuring the highest quality hybrid meat breeding pairs, as this is the basis for producing high quality hatching eggs. Each year we rear around 650,000 breeding pairs, which the company keeps in nearly 200 poultry houses. This represents more than 25 percent of the domestic production. The hatching eggs produced by the breeding pairs are sent to the Gallus Group hatcheries.

Hatching

The eggs from our own breeding pairs are hatched in-house and sold as day-old chicks on the domestic and export markets. Our broiler day-old chick hatcheries in Devecser and Bábolna have been modernised with the help of EU funding to incorporate the most advanced hatching technology. As a result, we now have one of the largest and most modern broiler hatcheries in Hungary. The group has two more hatcheries in Zala County. Our hatcheries have a combined capacity to hatch 125 million eggs.

Broiler chicken rearing

As part of a full integration operation, we raise our broiler chickens ourselves. Our rearing activities are carried out to the highest quality standards and under constant quality control. We pay particular attention to the quality of the feed, we do not feed the chickens animal protein and we seek the optimum housing conditions. We monitor the health status of our birds under constant veterinary control and with a veterinary laboratory background. It is of paramount importance to us that the birds live a healthy life in a good environment.

At our sites, we have installed a security and remote monitoring system that constantly monitors the conditions to ensure that they are in compliance with the regulations, sending an immediate alert to the security centre if it detects any faults or sub-optimal conditions. All measurement results and values are available retrospectively, ensuring that the high quality requirements are fully met on an ongoing basis.

Processing

Broiler chickens reared in our integration are processed in our slaughterhouse in Sárvár. This is where the group’s fresh and frozen products are made. In 2016, the Gallus Group invested more than HUF 1 billion in the slaughterhouse, which will enable the slaughter of 15 million broilers per year. In addition to the development of the slaughterhouse, the product range is also being continuously expanded: in line with market demand, we have increased the volume of fresh products in equalised protective gas packaging and the sale of premium products. Every year, new processing and packaging machines are added to the Sárvár slaughterhouse, while production volumes are also constantly increasing.

Oven ready products

We produce our seasoned grill and minced meat convenience food products in the Bakonypölöske processing plant in protective gas and vacuum packed packaging, which can be found mainly in large Hungarian retail chains.

We pay particular attention to product development, which means that every year we are able to introduce new products together with our partners.