Slaughtering Equipment and Operations

Handbook of Poultry Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 79-100

  Fernández López, Juana ^a   Sendra Nadal, Esther ^a   Sayas Barberá, Estrella ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic unloading systems part of modular crate system; Scalding softening the skin and facilitating plucking; Slaughtering equipment and operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885512721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470504451.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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