Canadian Poultry Magazine

Two Ontario poultry businesses win Regional Agri-Food Excellence Awards

Kristy Nudds   

Features Broilers Production Business/Policy Canada Poultry Production Production

November 20, 2015 – An egg by-product processor and a specialty breed poultry producer are amongst the recipients of this year’s regional Premier Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. 

Perth County Ingredients converts the waste from egg processing (inedible egg material called slurry or spinnings) into powdered, high-protein ingredients for animal feed and pet food manufacturers. With federal and provincial assistance, an egg processing plant in Perth County was brought back to life and retrofitted to process the by-product. Equipped with high-tech dryers, a pressurized membrane system and modified centrifuge technology, the facility has brought much-needed jobs to the area and supports local egg and hatchery operations, creating value from what would otherwise be landfill. READ MORE

As Ontario’s Asian population grows, so does demand for silkies. And Lakeside Game Farm is happy to supply these black-skinned, dark-fleshed chickens, named for their distinctively poofy plumage. Jim Ebert started out producing 100 chickens a week. Now he’s up to 8,000, and he has contracted three more producers to supplement his own production. Customers can’t get enough of the birds, which Ebert supplies the traditional way: fresh, rather than frozen, with the head and feet still on. With no sign of market saturation, Ebert has installed a new incubator to boost the hatch rate of his chicks, and he is building a state-of-the-art growing barn. He’s also mentoring novice silkie producers under the Chicken Farmers of Ontario’s new speciality breed program – growing a sector with plenty of untapped potential.

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