CHICKEN CARCASS FACTORY
In Jombang, East Java, there is one chicken slaughterhouse or the RPA on the built since 1998 and continues to grow rapidly until today. Thousands of chickens every day cut in this RPA.
Chicken coop called a farm. This farm can contain thousands of chickens. This chicken feed crumble or granular form. Crumble is specifically for a small chicken meal for lunch growth. Drinks to chicken should also be maintained to keep it flowing smoothly.
Health chickens here are also considered. One is the regular vaccine. The vaccine is only given to chickens aged 0, 12 and 20 days. The benefit is to prevent disease and improve endurance chicken.
In addition to food, beverage and vaccines, the air and the room temperature should also be maintained farm. The air inside the farm should not be stuffy much less humid.
Chicken will be ready cut at age 35 days. Chicken will go through the process of stunning. In this process, chicken rated voltage 20 to 30 volts depending on the size of the chicken. The purpose of the stunning process is the chicken into a stupor, only to lose consciousness, not immediately die. Before the cuts, the employees must pray first. Because the chicken slaughter plant here keep halal products. Even employees who perform these cuts has a certificate from the Indonesian Ulema Council, which means that the cutting has been done in a way that is good and true.
After the cut, the chicken will go into the boiling tank. The temperature is 60 degrees Celsius. The purpose of boiling is to facilitate the plucking later. Just a few minutes to pull out all the feathers.
In the evisceration room, the employee in charge of cutting the head, throw the entrails and cut the chicken legs. For cutting chicken legs is done automatically by the cutting machine. The abdomen such as the intestines, liver, gizzard, heart and the legs are then sold separately from the chicken body.
The next process is soaking chicken body in the machine named schroechiller. Soaking aimed at two things, first to clear debris stuck in the chicken blood. Soaking time about 5 minutes. Which both cool the chicken with a temperature of 5 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes, so will inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria.
Once drained of immersion, chickens were weighed one by one. Lastly, pack the chickens into the plastic. PRA also produces boneless chicken. This product is sold ranging from Rp 33,000 per kilogram, or follow the market price. Sales were already up to the rest of Indonesia.
The advantage of buying a chicken carcass or chicken that has been cleaned and cut without head, entrails and legs are safer and healthier because processed directly without chemicals, free of borax, formalin, and bird flu because it is always routinely detected in laboratory Animal Husbandry Department of East Java Province and it is definitely more awake protein content.
