>>> Posting number 437, dated 19 Nov 1998 10:52:22
Subject:      IBS-GEN : Crest Chicken Limited Fiji
From: "Hans Askov Jensen" <askov@ibm.net>

Just a comment on the amount of  solids waste: 25,000 broilers per day are
equal to 30 to 50 tons of broilers of which 20 % is waste, in one kind or
another, so the amount is probably 3,000 Kg  and not 3,000 tons

Hans Askov Jensen
Freelance Consultant
--
Jacky Foo to Asifo Ajuyah
>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.