Marel Stork Poultry Processing B.v.

Hendrikus Anthonius Theresia Petrus Hetterscheid

Roger Pierre Hubertus Maria Claessens

Erik Hendrikus Werner Peters

Marcus Marinus Gerardus Kroot

A poultry container side panel for releasable connection to a container for holding live poultry. The poultry container has a rectangular screen with aperture, a sideward protruding foot, and at least one coupling. The coupling features a stationary support connected to the rectangular screen and a displaceable locking element moveable between a coupling position and a release position. The poultry container provides a side wall with a rectangular aperture for receiving a poultry container side panel as well as for the assembly of such poultry container side panel and such poultry container.

Poultry container side panel, poultry container and assembly of a poultry container and at least one such side panel

The invention relates to a stunning device () for poultry, having an elongated stunning space () with a poultry feed opening and a poultry discharge opening which elongated stunning space is subdivided in at least two connecting compartments, a controlled anaesthetic gas feed connecting to the elongated stunning space, and a conveyer () leading through the elongated stunning space providing a transportation path for the poultry, wherein at least one side of the elongate stunning space is connecting to a transition compartment. The invention also provides a method of operating such a stunning device.

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Boxmeer, Netherlands

Hendrikus Anthonius Theresia Petrus Hetterscheid