Monitoring key aspects allows proper process control

摘要

Chicken processing is a permanent effort to minimise losses and achieve the highest possible quality. By monitoring and controlling specific aspects, quality, safety and yield of the processed chickens can be significantly improved. On arrival at theprocessing facilities, the chickens are hung on the shackles and moved to the stunner. The breast should then remain in permanent contact with the breast comforter. This has a relaxing effect on the birds, which facilitates a proper stunning. If the entrance to the electric stunner is different than the scalder's entrance, the chickens move up over a ramp where the wings are the first point of contact with the equipment surface. If this contact area is wet, then it is electrically charged, so chickens will receive a pre-shock, which will cause them to instinctively lift their neck and wings. Some birds remain in this position during their 12-second transit through the stunner, thus staying conscious.