Our Services
While our core business is helping plants lower downgrading and reduce condemnation through our Grade Improvement Program, we also offer many on-site training and consulting services. We provide training seminars for many of the critical plant tasks related to condemnation including: Trimmer Training, Grader Training, and NPIS Sorter training. Training seminars for grow-out, livehaul, and hangers with a focus on grade and condemnation are also very popular. We also assist with developing bench yield testing programs and animal welfare audits. After 45 years in business we have acquired significant process knowledge and can help provide solutions through on-site consulting.
Downgrading Diagnostics
Our Core business! We have a unique and specialized process to identify, measure, and monitor more than 90 different causes of downgrading. Our scientific helps eliminate the mystery, suspicion, and often finger-pointing associated with downgrading. Generating this Data helps everyone involved in producing a flock to not only identify where the downgrading or defects occur but also study the results when changes are made to the process. Comparisons can then be made to past results and industry benchmarks
NPIS Sorter Training
We offer classroom, wet lab, and on-line training for NPIS sorters. This series covers whole bird condemnation, sortable pathologies, localized lesions, and correct identification of contamination.
Trimmer Training
Trimming is one of the most critical positions in the plant related to remove unwholesome tissue but also to make carcasses ready-to-cook and upgrade to improve the quality. With high turn-over in many plants, especially after COVID, there is often limited instruction before employes are placed on line resulting in very inconsistent results. Our trimmer training seminars walk employees through the governmental trim standards to understand the defects that require trim action and how to prioritize when they are faced with multiple defects. Our training material leverages photos taken with federal inspection correlations.
Grader Training
Our Grader Training seminars help employees to understand the specific criteria for Grade whether to Federal Grade A standards or specific product standards. Similar to the trimmer training, a large part of the training materials are from correlations with federal correlation.
Livehaul Crew Training for Grade
Most downgrading for chickens and turkeys occurs in the final 24 hours. Proper handling on the farm is critical to achieve high Grades and low downgrading. Our training programs help livehaul crews understand the specific requirements for grade and how their actions an impact condemnation and final product quality. This includes proper techniques for handling birds in the barn, loading them onto the trucks, and handling during transportation.
Animal Welfare Training for Crews and Plant
Treating poultry in a gentle manner to reduce stress, broken bones and bruising to reduce downgrading and defects is a major component of animal welfare. We provide training seminars for livehaul crews, truck drivers, lairage workers, and hangers in the plant both to understand proper handling and animal welfare. The training not only covers proper handling but how to identify when birds are stressed and correct actions to take when mishandling is observed
Yield Analysis
We provide assistance with establishing bench yield evaluations as well as process evaluations to maximize plant yields both in primary harvest and in cut-up debone
Animal Welfare Auditing
As a PAACO certified auditor since 2011, we provide poultry animal welfare auditing services.
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