Hy-Line International and their subsidiary in South Africa, together with Blessman International and a South African medical institute will evaluate the contribution of an egg-per-day on child nutrition.

Dr. Jim Blessman, located in the Limpopo Province of the RSA, operates a feeding system that supports 60,000 impoverished children.  The intention is to determine the beneficial effect of supplementing diets with eggs.

Hy-Line will establish local egg production units using the Silver Brown strain and will distribute started pullets for this purpose. This project would  benefit from supplementation of hen diets with fat soluble vitamins A and D in addition to B complex vitamins and organic selenium to enrich the nutrient content of eggs.

Possible improvements in health among recipients of eggs will be monitored through the extended trial scheduled to run through 2024.

Production of eggs under subsistence conditions will be guided by Bruce Dooyema of Versova Egg Company.  Obstacles to successful implementation will be control of endemic diseases, maintaining an adequate supply of feed, distribution of eggs and maintaining the integrity of the program by control of the chain of production and appropriate logistics.