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Poultry Science, Vol 76, Issue 2, 405-409
Copyright © 1997 by Poultry Science Association

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Identification of a starting point of breast skin tears during chicken plucking

J Pitcovski, N Ohana, L Amzaleg, S Krispel, D Bercovich, and Y Pinchasov

Migal-Galilee Technological Center, Shmona, Israel.

A site (STP) was identified on the skin of the chicken, during defeathering in the slaughter house, at which about 90% of breast skin tears started. This site is on the ventral side of the pectoral tract area. There was no difference in location of this site with respect to different commercial lines, sexes, flocks, or time of the day. In order to demonstrate the importance of a small skin tear to ultimate damage, defeathered chickens with a minor tear at a particular site and undamaged defeathered chickens were passed through the defeathering machine a second time. Thirty-six percent of the STP chickens were torn further, but only a small percentage (about 4%) of the undamaged chickens were harmed.




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