Patent ID: 8794185

Claim:
A method of treating poultry hatchlings in a hatchling tray, the method comprising: providing a soft gel for dispensing through a nozzle opening, providing a dispensing apparatus, the apparatus for delivering a predetermined volume of the soft gel as a plurality of small beadlets through a plurality of nozzle openings of uniform size and uniform spacing therebetween along a manifold nozzle head wherein the plurality of nozzle openings on the manifold nozzle head approximately spans the length or width of a hatchling tray, placing the hatchling tray containing poultry hatchlings beneath the nozzle openings of the dispensing apparatus, dispensing the predetermined volume of the soft gel as small beadlets onto the hatchlings in the hatchling tray at approximately a constant rate, passing the hatchling tray beneath the nozzle openings for even distribution of the beadlets to the hatchlings contained therein, and allowing the hatchlings to consume the beadlets.