Ivory

The SASSO Ivory is a beautiful speckled Sussex chicken with white and black feathers producing good quality eggs in various brown shades. It delivers very good egg performance with 318 eggs at 75 weeks. For added practicality, day-old chicks hatched from the Ivory are feather sexable. The Ivory layer is a robust bird capable of resisting to challenging conditions while still providing a good economic performance. If you are looking for a highly adaptable and productive layer, the Ivory may be the right fit for your operations.

Laying period data:

Egg production (cumulative) at 75 weeks: 318
Body weight at 5% production: 2050 g
Body weight at 75 weeks: 2641 g
Average feed intake from 20 to 75 weeks: 45.5 kg
Produced egg mass: 19.08 kg
Average feed per egg: 143 g

Unique benefits

Top performance

The SASSO Ivory offers great performance results to any farmer.

Great egg production

This white dual purpose laying hen produces the most important number of eggs in our portfolio.

Adapts to every situation

As a traditional layer, the Ivory can easily adapt to any type of operation.

Male growing performance

Age in days	Male body weight (g)	FCR
1
7	98
14	160
21	290	2.25
28	440	2.45
35	630	2.61
42	770	2.76
49	890	2.85
56	1050	2.88
63	1200	3.13
70	1355	3.26
77	1505	3.38
84	1650	3.57

Laying performance

Age in weeks	Body weight theo. (g)	Weekly laying theo. (%)	Cumulative egg production theo.	Egg weight theo. (g)	Feed consumption theo. (g)
21	2170	32	2.8	44	107
27	2310	93	39	54	115
40	2426	88	118	60	117
50	2496	83	178	62	117
60	2566	79	236	62	117
75	2641	73	318	62	117

These recommendations, based on our experience, are intended to allow the expression of our strains’ genetic potential in normal operations without any responsibility on the part of SASSO. An environment, biosecurity conditions, the geographical location, or specific equipment might require adaptations that have not been taken in consideration in these general recommendations.