food preservation

Poultry Plucker

[allowing commerical poultry producers to rapidly clean chicken carcas]

[Summary & Motivation] [Community] [Specifications] [Issues] [Contacts] [Documents]

Summary & Motivation	Project Initiator: Local commerical poultry cooperative Start Date: 2001 Projected Completion Date: Not applicable Current Status: Ideas stage A local poultry cooperative came to ATS looking for a solution to their problem of plucking several chickens rapidly. The first food technologist, a woman from Kenya, was pursuing this technology, but nothing has been done recently. There is still a small need for such a product. [top]
Community	This technology would be marketed to commercial poultry producers. [top]
Specifications	Must successfully pluck an average-sized poultry bird. [top]
Issues	Help is needed in the following areas: Evaluating local need for such a device Designing poultry plucker [top]
Contacts	Project Leader: Kopano Tsenoli MIT Contact: Not available (If interested, please email mit_ats@MIT.edu) ATS Contact: Kopano Tsenoli <ktsenoli@hotmail.com> Website (If applicable):   [top]
Documents	DOCUMENTS Description (Name) [Date] Download Small-Scale Agricultural Implements Needs Assessment Contains contact for poultry plucking cooperative Documents [top]

*.pdf - Portable Document File / *.doc - Document (Microsoft Word) / *.jpg - Joint Photographic Experts Group (Browser) / *.zip - WinZip Compressed File (WinZip)

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