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New broiler handling process pays off in sss
As the operator tilts the platform holding the
poultry cage, the broilers slide slowly out onto
a conveyor belt. This revoluntionary new
system pays off both for farmers and
processors, reports USDA.
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ATHENS, Ga. A revolutionary
new system developed by
Agricultural Research Service
engineers for handling live broilers
from the farm to the processing
plant is paying off in dollars—and
sense—for the poultry industry.
From a 1980 prototype installed
at cooperating Marell Poultry,
Inc , Murrayville, Ga., the system
has evolved to successful in
stallations in processing plants in
Georgia, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Florida, Virginia, and
Maryland, with others yet to come.
Agricultural engineer A. Don
Shackelford, former engineering
technician John H. Hoiladay, and
former agricultural engineer
William K. Whitehead conceived
and developed the innovative
system at the Richard B. Russell
Agricultural Research Center,
Athens, Ga. According to
Shackelford, industrywide
adoption could reduce the costs of
marketing poultry by ap
proximately J4B million annually.
One major key to the success of
the new system is the use of a
large-capacity metal cage, which
replaces about 30 standard poultry
coops for transporting live
chickens. With the new cage,
chickens are transported more
economically and more safely and
humanely.
“Practical experience with
industrial receiving dock handling
of the cages proves that the system
can handle and empty 30 cages per
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hour,” says Shackelford. “This
represents a production rate of
about 10,000 broilers per hour. For
example, 30 of the new cages can
handle a production rate of 9,600
broilers per hour compared with
800 coops per hour for a com
parable number of broilers."
A typical poultry transport truck
that normally hauls 520 standard
coops is now loaded with 20 cages,
which can transport 1,000 broilers
more than normally transported in
coops.
The chickens have adequate
space in the large new cages, and
in actual practice are loaded in
accordance with the season. In
warm summer months fewer birds
are transported per unit of space
than in winter.
The three mam developments of
the coopless transport system are
large transport cages, hydraulic
boom clamps mounted on powered
lift trucks, and cage unloaders and
conveyors for receiving dock
handling of the containers and
broilers
The cage, 48 inches wide, 96y
inches long, and 52 inches high, is^
divided into 10 compartments, 5
tiers high, with 2 compartments
per tier. The frame is constructed
of rectangular and square steel
tubing. The sides and top are ex
panded metal spotwelded to the
frame. Floors are galvanized
metal.
Hinged compartment doors are
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