Party with Arty

Best Flocks awarded at H&N’s Distributor Conference 2023, Istanbul

Outstanding work deserves outstanding acknowledgement! The highlight and culminating moment of each Distributor Conference is the Awards Ceremony to recognize the best flocks. It’s a brief moment compared with the outstanding work our distributors do every day, working towards excellence in their flocks.

Although H&N is a breed with a long-standing tradition since 1945, most of our distributors are pioneers and thought leaders in their country as they apply and roll out the unique potential of the H&N brand. That’s because H&N is really more than world-class genetics: what we offer is a well-thought-through economic system enabling greater profits more safely and with greater value for all the participants in the value creation chain. To understand and embrace that takes some thought leadership and sometimes the readiness to question and improve processes.
Some of our longest-standing H&N distributors are already market leaders, while many are evolving strongly with new distributors and ramping up very fast. All of them are powerful market forces to reckon with.
H&N’s founder, Art Heisdorf, was also a thought-leader and pioneer. He became a force to reckon with as his scientific way of breeding and documenting selection choices revolutionized and modernized the poultry industry.

Thanks to Art Heisdorf’s methods, H&N International soon grew to be a world market leader in genetics and helped other brands grow big, too!

Art Heisdorf based everything he did on hard data. Art and his wife Mary were literally taking data from each and every single chick, each single hen, each single egg, every single day.
That’s because they wanted to base their selection on solid, systematic proof with scientifically transparent data through and through.
Art Heisdorf was not just a scientist, but also a computer pioneer.
The Heisdorfs were already using computer technology in their breeding process even before NASA used it to put a man on the moon! In fact, even before NASA was founded!

Their goal was simple: the best flock. Always just the best! And with a proven track record.

Therefore, in proud memory of our founder Arthur Heisdorf, better known by his nickname “Art”, the award for the best H&N flock is named “Arty”.
Unlike an Oscar® statue, which is in essence just gold-coated cheaper metal, the H&N “Arty” is solid laser-engraved glass, transparent all the way through—like Heisdorf’s breeding procedure.

Because hard data proves that H&N flocks are world-class winners!

And the winners are:

Congratulations to Bart Grosfeld and Hans Groot-Koerkamp of Agromix in the Netherlands for the best white Parent Stock flock of 2023.

And congratulations to Silvina Ermacora and Joaquín Suárez Ermacora of Cabanha Barhy, Argentina, for the best brown Parent Stock Flock in 2023!
Cabaña Barhy has won for the second time in a row, since they also won for the best flock in 2021 in Mallorca!