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range includes traditional and com-
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climate control and air cleaning. The
scope of services varies from small to
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commissioning. The company’s history
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ARBOR ACRES SOUTH AFRICA HOLDS
SECOND VIRTUAL BROILER AND BREEDER
MANAGEMENT ROAD SHOW

as chick numbers, livability, hatchabil-
ity and feed conversion ratio (FCR).
Aviagen is committed to strengthen-
ing Arbor Acres South Africa’s custom-
er success by helping maximize the
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South Africa and the Arbor Acres Mid-
dle East and Africa (MEA) regional
support team recently held a two-day Arno commented on the effective-
webinar, to bring the latest broiler and ness of the road show. “Although this
breeder flock management advice to year’s roadshow was virtual, it is still
customers throughout the Republic of a great way for us to deliver critical
South Africa. production, genetic and health updates
and insights on parent stock and broiler
During the two-day webinar, Arno helped to progress the performance of
performance to our customer base.”
Van der Nat, general manager of Arbor broilers and breeders, as well as the
Acres South Africa; and Aviagen rep- George de Kock, agricultural direc- popularity of the Arbor Acres brand.
resentatives, Riaan Le Roux, Aviagen tor, Country Bird Holdings (Supreme From the benchmarking sessions, it is
technical manager; Dr. Zoltan Marton, Poultry), commented, “The 2-day meet- very clear that the Arbor Acres broiler
Arbor Acres veterinary services spe- ing was full of important and interesting is performing exceptionally well within
cialist, Tolga Erkus, incubation special- information. I particularly enjoyed the the South African market, and this is
ist, Zied Azzez, technical product data benchmarking session as it allowed me something we will continue to high-
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of products, Bernard Green, ventilation within the region and will help us to our customers within the region. The
technical services manager and Xavier evaluate our own performance and Arbor Acres team has many years of
Asensio, poultry nutrition specialist, check the criteria that we need to fo- experience and knowledge that we
made up the support team that gave cus on to get more out of the genetic pass onto our customers within South
presentations to customers. Together potential of our Arbor Acres flocks.” Africa. This webinar has just been one
they reviewed the performance data “Our South African customers look of the mediums that have allowed us
and exchanged ideas and the latest forward to this roadshow every year to do this, especially throughout this
practices in male management, breed- and recognize the added value it pro- period of uncertainty. Thank you to
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of Aviagen genetics. The Arbor Acres part of the Arbor Acres family. The port and for contributing to our second
team also presented a valuable bench- webinar highlighted the dedication of virtual roadshow,” said Riaan Le Roux,
mark analysis of year-on-year improve- producers in South Africa, which has Aviagen technical service manager,
ments in performance indicators such Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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