Estudio comparativo de uniformidad de peso en pollos de engorde de lotes mixtos y sexados mediante parámetros establecidos de la empresa AVIDESA MAC POLLO afectando el procesado de las aves.

Abstract

Poultry production is one of the most important activities within the food assurance of the Colombian population, where the quality of this meat depends on a series of practices and procedures involved in the breeding and slaughter of these animals, thus, in the plants there are difficulties with respect to animal welfare where complications are evidenced in the loading, transport, capture and slaughter process, leading to an increase in losses not only of animals, but also hindering and delaying the productive processes of the plant which influences its economy. Thus, the main objective of this study was to compare and show the impact of weight uniformity in broilers from mixed and sexed flocks through parameters established in the processing plant affecting the processing of the birds, where monitoring, supervision and observation of the different processes involved in the animal slaughter of the Floridablanca processing plant where 112,000 chicken birds from unsexed farms were processed, according to the results and conclusions are as follows, The coefficient of variation of the farms where the study was carried out was stipulated, establishing the non-uniformity of this due to the fact that the Jamaica farm (2) presented a higher percentage of non-uniformity with 37% and the Eden Barranca farm showed a lower percentage of non-uniformity with 51%, In this way, it was possible to determine different affections in animal welfare due to the non-uniformity of the unsexed flock, altering the electrical conductivity of the birds when they enter the stunning vat. Thus, we conclude the importance of applying different standards of poultry processing in the plant to ensure animal welfare, as well as the management of sexed breedings in the farms, allowing the animals to arrive in more uniform and required conditions to the slaughter process.