DlO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 13,1980
Now—mechanical harvesting for broilers
SALISBURY, Md -
Mechanical harvesting of
broiler chickens produce
more high-quality carcasses
at substantial economic
savings and is more humane
than hand catching
This is the finding of a
University of Maryland
Agricultural Experiment
Station agricultural
engineer studying
mechanical alternatives to
the traditional methods of
hand-catching and loading
broilers
Assistant professor Ah
Farsaie and his colleagues
designed and tested two
mechanical devices for
catching and loading
broilers in response to the
growing desire for methods
that are less costly, less
damaging and that require
fewer men than the
Chicken
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the reproductive system is
stimulated ”
Sure enough, closer
examination of the chicken
showed that its testes were
huge, about the size of a
chestnut, compared to the
normal kidney-bean-sized
testes
Still, the bigger surprise
came when the researchers
were able to milk the nine
week old male for semen
Normally, semen production
does not begin until broiler
breeders are about 20 to 24
weeks old and weigh about
400 grams
The chickens that had
undergone the operation
weighed about one-fourth of
that (1,200 grams) “and it
seems that the ones Ms
Mass cut are going to remain
lighter in weight throughout
their development,” Kuenzel
said
“I was surprised,” he said
“The operation apparently
stimulates the onset of
development of their
reproductive system-it
brings them to sexual
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traditional method
Currently broilers are
caught and loaded into
chicken coops by hand.
In one test, broilers were
caught by scoop on a front
end loader An average of 55
broilers were caught with
the scoop and earned to the
bed of a live-haul truck
There, they were gently
removed one by one and
placed in chicken coops
Another group of broilers
were gently picked up by
hand and placed into crates
inside the broiler house
Eighty-eight crates were
caught by the front-end
loader method and 84 were
caught by hand The broilers
sustained less bruising from
the “scoop” method than
they did by the traditional
method
In the other test, broilers
maturity
development, much sooner
than normal ”
Just why this is so is a
question Kuenzel is studying
right now "We’re trying to
determine much fiber tracks
(connections that carry
messages from one nerve
cell to the next) in the brain
were severed,” he said
“They are patterned through
the brain, so, hopefully, we
can identify which ones were
cut by the surgery Right
now, we don't know ”
The implications of the
research are promising
With sexual development
coming much earlier than
normal, roosters can begin
breeding much earlier;
potentially more chickens
can be produced
The operation also ap
pears to offset the problem
of unwieldy size among
roosters as well as avian leg
weakness brought about, in
part, by that size The
smaller roosters are fully
capable of producing sperm,
yet are not so big as to have
difficulty inseminating the
hens
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were caught by the scoop
attached to the front-end
loader and then dumped onto
a long conveyor They
moved along the conveyor to
the truck, where they were
hand-loaded individually
into coops
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broilers were loaded using
this method, while another
104 crates were loaded by
hand Again, the broilers
sustained less bruising from
the scoop and conveyor
method than they did by the
traditional method
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“We’ll be taking soil and
water samples both before
and after the treatments,”
said Lee, and we'll continue
with followup sampling at
prescribed time intervals
Water from wells and ponds
and other impoundments,
and soil from various depths
will be analyzed ”
The New York Depart
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harvesting system - which is
still under development - will
require nine men, two less
than the normal 11-man
crew used in traditional
hand-catching procedures.
Farsaie estimates that about
$ll,OOO per man will be saved
annually
broiler
Furthermore, less
bruising will produce a
corresponding increase in
the number of Grade A
broiler carcasses, Farsaie
says This development
would increase profits by
about $22,500 per year for
one operation alone and
would save the Delmarva
poultry industry an
estimated $1,940,000 per
year