Slaughtering and Picking

Each step from live bird handling, stunning, slaughtering, scalding and picking must be carefully controlled to avoid damaging carcasses and causing downgrades.

Focus on animal welfare
Effective stunning – both electrical and CAS
Single or double-sided neck cut or throat cut for halal
Precise temperature control in scalding
Highly adjustable picking machines
Modular scalding and picking design to fit space and processing requirements

In our Air Scalders, birds are immersed in hot water while they are hanging in the overhead conveyor to loosen the feathers before picking. The scalders can be delivered in various lengths to best fit your production.

Our Tunnel Pickers offer multiple adjustment features for the best possible picking performance. The configuration of various picking machines on the line allows for targeting the picking differently from machine to machine as picking progresses.

1 2a — Our Water Stunner is designed to ensure high stunning efficiency as well as animal welfare

1 2b — Multi-stage, counterflow scalding principle to progressively dilute microbial load in the water

1 2c — Our Tunnel Picker offers multiple adjustment features for the best possible performance

1 2d — Our Killing Machines offer automatic cutting of jugular veins and carotid arteries on one or both sides of the neck (also throat cuts for halal)