DunnRite Chicken
Mr. Raynald St-Hilaire
Production Manager
Dunnrite is a company that slaughters livestock, an abattoir.
So that's where we slaughter the broilers that we raise on the
farm. Afterwards, we sell the finished product to restaurants
and retailers, locally and in other parts of Canada.
Nowadays, with the knowledge we have about genetics, we can grow
a chicken to an average 1.75 - 1.8 Kg per bird in 34 or 35 days.
With the computer, we can have a system that lets you weigh the
bird every day, that keeps track of its growth day by day, so
we know if it's getting enough meal, if it has enough water, if
the temperature is just right or has changed; then we can adjust
it with the technology that controls the air flow in the chicken
shed.
The person in charge of the poultry can make decisions at least
once a day, to be sure the flock is performing according to what
can be expected, genetically speaking.
So there's a fantastic tool that they didn't have before.
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