Jamesway contributes to State-of-Art Hatchery at University of Arkansas Renovations at the Center of Excellence for Poultry Science research complex that were completed in March 2009 have resulted in a brand new, state-of-the-art hatchery for research and teaching. The two-room renovation project, which took place in the existing hatchery, supplied much needed space for the replacement of outdated and inadequate teaching and research equipment, thereby providing more uniformity for research trials. The hatchery now boasts four Jamesway P500 Setters and two Jamesway P500 Hatchers, each with a 5000 plus egg capacity. All of the equipment is networked to one main computer where temperature and relative humidity can be tracked at numerous intervals based upon need. With the aid of the computer networking, students and researchers now have actual control over temperature within 1/10th of a degree. “By installing and using the Jamesway products, students now have hands-on access to equipment they will really see in the commercial poultry industry,” said Keith Bramwell, extension specialist for hatchery-breeder management, for the department of poultry science. “We now have the best incubation and hatchery set-up in the country for a University research department.” A functional benefit of the new hatchery is the ability to pull the hatchers and setters, which are on rollers, out of their respective rooms in order to foam and fumigate between hatchings. This could not be done in the old hatchery because the equipment was old and outdated and the designdid not allow this. The cost for the equipment, which included hatchers, setters, networking controllers and backup alarms, totaled approximately $120,000.00, and was covered in a joint venture between the poultry science department faculty and the Jamesway Incubator Company, Inc., of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Jamesway is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of poultry incubation systems. _______________________________