A little unfiltered photo essay on slaughter setup (no hire,...

[dragonlady7]

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A little unfiltered photo essay on slaughter setup (no hire, just a lot of stainless steel and waterproof tape). Chicken processing day. Party about to start. (at Brunswick, New York)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCVtKeWhnHu/?igshid=3n8yfgde1blp

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[j00j]

Noob questions:
What are the metal cylinder things on the wall?
What are the zip ties for?

[dragonlady7]

Ah, the metal things are the kill-cones-- you invert the birds and put them into those cones with their heads sticking out the bottoms, and then you cut their neck blood vessels and they bleed into the trough and are held immobile while they bleed out.

The zip ties are to mark individual carcasses in the chill tanks so that we can pull them back out later to check temperatures-- we record temperatures hourly to demonstrate to the inspectors that the chill process is getting them down to a safe temperature in a correct amount of time. Taking a temp of a random carcass only gives a meaningful result if it's the same carcass each time.

[j00j]

Ahhhhh now I know! Thanks!
I did not want to google that, mostly because I didn't want to get weird propaganda.

[dragonlady7]

oh i don't know what on earth your google ads would be like if you looked up chicken processing equipment. i do know the manufacturer of most of it is called Featherman but lord knows what visiting their site would get you in your ads...

I did do a tour of the whole thing in my Instagram Stories, which I then made a permalink Highlight out of-- I did it in batches so there's like half a dozen preachy topical slides at the beginning, then I did a whole tour of the facility before we started, and then later I did a set of little videos kind of touring through the process, so it's all lumped together in there. Poultry Processing Instagram Highlight
(you don't have to have instagram to view it, i don't think)
if you're curious!