Alternative slaughter procedures: On-farm slaughter and transport system for broilers
Chair: Alex V. Samoylov, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Wednesday, July, 12, 2023 at 9:00 AM ET
This symposium will focus on “Alternative methods for initial broiler processing” and exploration of alternative processing including slaughter at the farm. On-Farm Slaughter and Transport (FSaT) is envisioned as a mobile unit that stuns, slaughters, and shackles the broilers at the farm. A separate unit then transports the shackled broiler carcasses to a poultry processing plant. Once at the poultry processing plant carcasses are mechanically transferred into plant shackle lines and moved into de-feathering. 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, while having ancillary impacts such as improving yield efficiencies by eliminating DOAs, potentially reducing water and energy consumption by reducing labor requirements at the processing plant by eliminating live rehang, and provide better working conditions for catching crews, and be economically sustainable. The symposium will also include talks about live transport and the stress experienced by broilers during this pre-slaughter procedure. The presentations will cover the welfare and basic meat quality impacts of transporting live birds.
Early Bird Registration offers a significantly discounted rate for attendees. Be sure to register soon as Early Bird Registration is only available until THIS SUNDAY, April 30, 2023. Savings is in USD.
