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POULTRY SCIENCE
Volume 102, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.103137
Keywords
poultry transport welfare; delayed processing; defeathering; carcass microbiology; meat quality
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This paper focuses on alternative methods for initial broiler processing, including slaughter at the farm immediately after catching. The FSaT approach can improve bird welfare and well-being, as well as bring additional benefits such as improving yield efficiencies and reducing labor requirements.
This paper focuses on alternative methods for initial broiler processing and exploration of alternative processing including slaughter at the farm immediately after catching. On-farm slaughter and transport (FSaT) is envisioned as a mobile unit that stuns, slaughters, and shackles the broiler carcasses at the farm. A separate trailer-unit then transports the shackled broiler carcasses to the processing plant. Once at the processing plant carcasses are mechanically trans-ferred into plant shackle lines and moved into process-ing. The hypothesis is that the FSaT approach will dramatically improve overall bird welfare and well-being by reducing live handling and eliminating live transport from the farm to the processing plant. In addition, ancillary impacts could include: improving yield efficiencies by eliminating dead on arrivals, potentially reducing water and energy consumption, reducing labor requirements at the processing plant with the elimination of live rehang, and offering an economically sustainable alternative. The FSaT approach represents a radical change from traditional processing, and its effects on poultry processing need to be evaluated. This paper presents results of experiments conducted at a commercial poultry processor to evaluate feather picking efficiency, carcass bacteriological loading, and meat quality for carcasses.
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