>>> Posting number 425, dated 17 Nov 1998 11:22:07
Subject:      IBS-GEN : Crest Chicken Limited Fiji
From: Jacky Foo <foo@swipnet.se>

Asifo Ajuyah wrote:
Nov 11th:
>....how to efficiently handle the waste from their
>abattoir that currently process 25,000 broiler chickens per day
>with the following waste:-
>water = 8 gallons per bird per day.
>solid = 5% per bird per day

Nov 13, you wrote:
>At the final stage or end of the day CC is left with approximately 3000
>tons of solids made up of the following - feet, head, feathers, gut and gut
>contents from 25,000 broiler chickens plus between 318200 to 454600 litres
>of wash water.

there is a significant difference in the information you provided on Nov 11
and Nov 13:

8 gallons (3.8 liters = 1 gallon) per bird (30.4 liters) x 25,000 birds
will give  760,000 liters. If 1 bird weighs 1.5 kg, 25000 birds will be
37,500 kg and if the carcass weight is 75 % (i.e. 25 % waste),  solids will
be 9,375 kg per day.

comments:
(1) 3000 tons waste solids per day seems very wrong.
(2) 30.4 litres (or 15 liters) of wash water per bird is certainly too wasteful.
(3) what does CC do with 25,000 chicken per day ? it is for export !

regards
Jacky