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Giordano Poultry Plast S.p.a.

Linco Italia S.r.l.

Linco Food Systems A/s

Maxitech S.r.l.

Massimo Zanotti

Henrik Ovesen

Giuseppe Mola

Svend Lindholst

Osvaldo Giordano

A method for monitoring live poultry intended for slaughter includes checking managing parameters and process parameters of poultry flocks from breeding farms, and monitoring transportation of the flocks to a slaughterhouse and handling thereof at the slaughterhouse. Gas stunning parameters of the poultry are checked prior to throat-cutting thereof. Video shooting of the poultry's reactions during the stunning step is done to visually verify a degree of well-being thereof. Computer records are made available wherein a single video file corresponds to each poultry flock or group of flocks in which images of the visible reactions of the poultry are combined and synchronized with said managing and process parameters.

Method for monitoring the respect of well-being of live poultry intended for slaughter

A handling system for transport units of live poultry in a slaughterhouse, includes an inlet station, a transfer line to receive drawer-like cages extracted from supporting frames of the transport units, and an extraction device. Between the inlet station and the transfer line a rigid receiving structure of the two stacks of drawer-like cages is interposed, vertically displaceable between a position of simultaneous receipt of the two stacks of extracted drawer-like cages and a separate depositing position of the drawer-like cages of each stack onto the transfer line.

Handling system for transport units of live poultry in a slaughterhouse

The washing of drawer-like cages for transporting live poultry consists of successively introducing the drawer-like cages into a rotatable drum with a horizontal axis having an inlet and an outlet, driving the continuous rotation of the rotatable drum, providing a helical roto-translational motion to the drawer-like cages from the inlet towards the outlet of the rotatable drum, and spraying the drawer-like cages with a washing liquid during their roto-translational motion.

Device for washing containers for transporting live poultry

A transporting unit for live poultry including a quadrangular supporting frame and a plurality of drawer-type cages open at the top, arranged in a superimposed condition in the frame and slidably displaceable outwards through a first side of the supporting frame, in a partially extracted condition to enable loading of the poultry from a site located at a second side of the frame from the lowermost drawer kept inserted within the frame. The frame is configured to enable simultaneous loading of the poultry into each drawer-type cage from an additional site located at a third side of the supporting frame which is opposite to the second side.

Transporting unit for live poultry and handling method using the transporting unit

A transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck includes a supporting frame and a plurality of drawer-type cages having a lateral wall without aeration openings and intended to be selectively positioned at one side or the opposite side of the supporting frame, depending on the climatic and environmental transport conditions. The drawer-type cages are arranged in a single pile or in two adjacent piles, and in both cases the arrangement is such to be able to occupy the entire width of the loading deck of a truck.

Method for transporting live poultry on board a truck

A method and apparatus for stunning animals intended to be slaughtered wherein the animals are introduced into and displaced from above downwardly in a closed environment () containing a stunning gas mixed with air at an increasing concentration with a top to bottom vertical gradient from a preset initial value to a final higher value. The stunning gas concentration is detected in the upper area () of the environment () and in case the detected concentration is higher than the preset initial value, the external air is automatically supplied to the upper area at a pressure slightly higher than the atmospheric pressure until the preset initial value is restored.

Method and apparatus for stunning animals intended to be slaughtered

A method for stunning poultry in a slaughterhouse by means of supplying a stunning gas into a closed chamber wherein the poultry is advanced through a plurality of successive ambients between an inlet, wherein the stunning gas concentration is at a minimum, and an outlet, at which the stunning gas concentration is at a maximum. The stunning gas concentration increases progressively from each ambient to the successive ambient, initially with a minimum increase rate and thereafter with a higher increase rate up to the maximum concentration.

Method and apparatus for stunning poultry

A method and a system () for gas stunning of animals for slaughter is described, where the animals arrive at the slaughterhouse in transport crates (), where gas stunning of the animals is effected while they are still in transport crates (), and where the transport crates with the animals, a number of conveyors (), are conveyed successively through a stunning chamber (), where the action of the gas for stunning of the animals is adjusted by shortening or prolonging the conveying time and/or the conveying route of the said transport crates () through the stunning chamber (). It is possible to optimize stunning while at the same time considering all the parameters. If the stunning condition of the animals is not optimum, it is easy to prolong or shorten the conveying time and/or the conveying route through the stunning chamber.

Method and system for gas stunning of poultry for slaughter

A unit for transporting live poultry includes a supporting frame and a series of drawer-type cages open at the top, which can be at least partially extracted from the supporting frame in the direction of one side, either the back side or one lateral side, of the transporting unit other than the front side at which the poultry are introduced into the drawer-type cages.

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Gussago, Italy

Massimo Zanotti