Pieter Oosthuysen, manager of Cobb South Africa, left, with Jaco Viljoen, manager of Opti Chicks.
Opti Chicks, the newest customer of poultry genetics company Cobb South Africa, is now producing 500,000 chicks weekly in the Lichtenburg hatchery that it opened last autumn.
Opti Chicks is a new company started by agricultural business NWK to supply day-old chicks to the North West province, the biggest broiler-growing area of South Africa. Vertically integrated chicken producer Rainbow Farms has contracted with Opti Chicks to purchase most of its chicks.
