Asagi Hatchery

Located in the heart of Kalihi we are a family-owned and operated business and have been proudly hatching chicken eggs since 1935. Currently, we are the only chicken hatchery operating in the state of Hawaii. We supply chicks to families, farms, schools, fairs and chicken lovers throughout the state and the Pacific Islands.

Our staff takes pride in their work and that reflects in our customer service. We aim to provide our customers with healthy and happy chicks.

History
Asagi Hatchery originally began as Asagi Eggs and Poultry. It started out on Kalihi's Puuhale Road, then moved to a small two-acre farm in what was once Damon Tract, a region of orchards and hog and chicken farms on the land that is now the industrial area that is and surrounds the Honolulu International Airport.

Mikio "Mike" Asagi started the farm in 1939 with the help of his wife Caroline, his mother Aki, and brothers and sisters - Satoru, Henry, and Ruby. They hatched, raised, and sold chicken and eggs directly to those who came to them.

Raising chickens was greatly encouraged by the U.S. government, the country was reeling from the Depression and about to enter World War II and it was a way of supplying its millions of citizens with a cheaper and faster growing source of protein, an alternative to the mainstays of pork or beef. During the 1930s and 1940s thousands tried their hands at the chicken farming business, which made way for the establishment of the poultry industry in America.

Asagi Hatchery was part of this growth. It all came together when Mike found out Damon Tract would be sold to a land developer and all the farmland cleared for eventual airport development. Seeing the need for a large-scale local poultry supplier in Hawaii, he closed Asagi Eggs and Poultry, secured property in Kalihi, and built the Hatchery as well as the Ewa Brand processing plant.

Together, Mike and Ernest Morgado created Pacific Poultry. Asagi Hatchery secured the eggs and hatched them, chicken farmers in Waianae raised the chicks, and Morgado ran Ewa Brand which processed the chickens.

In 1960, Asagi Hatchery, Inc. opened its doors and incubators on Kanakanui Street.