Longer journeys to processing plants are associated with higher mortality in broiler chickens
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in British Poultry Science
- Vol. 33 (1) , 201-206
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00071669208417458
Abstract
1. The number of broilers recorded as dead on arrival (DOA) in 1113 journeys to a poultry processing plant was related to the length of the journeys. The average journey time was 3.3 h and the maximum recorded was 9 h. 2. Overall, 0.194% of 3.2 million birds were DOA. Mortality was higher for journeys which took longer. For journeys lasting less than 4 h the incidence of dead birds was 0.156%; for longer journeys the incidence was 0.283%. 3. There was some evidence that it was time of journey, rather than distance travelled, that was more important in determining mortality.Keywords
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