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Vermont Mobile Poultry Processing Unit

  

Vermont now has a new Mobile Poultry Processing Unit available for farmers. Cornerstone Farm Ventures and Brothers Body and Equipment built the unit and delivered it in November 2008.

The unit is designed to do 250 birds per day and could easily do 250 birds per hour with the equipment that is installed. The trailer is a 32 foot custom built trailer that has a kill room, and evisceration room as well as inspectors office and bathroom. This is the first of it's kind in the US. The MPU is equipped with an on board generator, propane tanks, exhaust fans and waterproof wiring systems.

Cornerstone Farm Ventures designs and builds mobile processing units for poultry processing and is the leader in design and construction MPU's in the country.

We can design and build an MPU on any number of platforms including shipping containers for use over seas.

The unit has the following equipment:

2008 Brothers Custom Alum-A-Body Cargo Trailer

  • Tandem Axle

  • 36 ft. Length x 101 in. Width x 144 in. Overall Height

  • Interior Dimensions - 35 ft., 6 in. Length x 98 in. Width x 108 in. Height

  • Bath room

  • Inspectors office

  • Two Roof Mount Direct Drive Exhaust Fans

  • Two Air Curtain Over Rear Door

  • Single Air Curtain Over CS Door

  • Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Detectors

  • Gas Lines and Shutoffs to Service Equipment

  • High Volume Two Stage LP Gas Regulator

  • Five (5) 40 Lb. LP Gas Bottles with Rack and Pigtails

Electrical Service Equipment

  • 120/240 VAC / 50 Amp / 1 Phase Electrical Service

  • One (1) 120/240 VAC / 50 Amp Inlet Receptacle

  • 25 ft. / 50 Amp Shore Cable

  • Automatic 50 Amp Transfer Switch

  • Onan 6.5KW Gas Generator

  • Insulated/Soundproofed Custom Enclosure

Kill Room

  • 8 Ft. Retractable RV Awning in Aluminum Case on Rear

  • Ashley Kill Rack with 10 broiler cones, 2 turkey cones

  • VS200 Stun Knife

  • Ashley SS30 scalder

  • Pickwick SPJ3 Plucker

Eviscerating Room:

  • Ashley 4 man evisceration trough

  • Cornerstone Shrink Tank (for shrink wrapping birds)

  • 1- 44 "Condemned" container

  • 2 - 44 gal "Inedible" containers

  • 9 - 44 gal "Edible" chill containers

  • Cornerstone custom shackle bar with 10 combination shackles

  • Inspectors office

Please contact Jim McLaughlin for more information at 607-334-2833 

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Our Mini MPU is now available. It consists of equipment from our PM line of poultry processing equipment. We have different sizes and configurations available. Please call us for more information and how to have one built to your specifications.

We also are now renting poultry processing equipment call 607.334.2833 for information.

We recently provided a Mini Mobile Poultry Processing Unit to the Island Grown Initiative in Martha's Vineyard Mass

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We are pleased to be able to offer financing on our equipment. We have teamed up with Premier Funding to offer you financing at competitive prices. If you would like more information please call or e-mail us for more information.

We have several MPU's operating in New York State. We can custom design these units for you to your specifications.

This Mobile Processing Unit helps take the bite out of processing costs for small-scale poultry producers. 

Processing is a big barrier for many would-be small-scale poultry producers. As daunting as butchering hundreds of chickens in your kitchen might be, it's even harder to justify the expense of building dedicated processing facilities when you're just starting to build your market.

That barrier has been lowered substantially for New York pastured-poultry producers by the staff of the South-Central NY RC&D, based in Norwich, N.Y. With the help of grants from Heifer Project International and the USDA-NRCS Graze-NY program, the RC&D built a Mobile Processing Unit (MPU) which is towed with a half-ton pickup to individual farms where producers use it to speed processing of their birds. 

The RC&D charges the producers a small per-bird fee plus mileage. That's a bargain compared with the $1 to $1.75 per-bird cost at state-licensed processing facilities, which quickly eats up profits. 

With the right tools and a little practice, a couple can process 20 birds per hour with the MPU, says Jim McLaughlin, coordinator of the RC&D's pastured poultry project. The savings translate to $27.50 per-hour for home-processed birds, plus the wastes can be composted to return organic matter to the soil, he notes. 

The total cost of the unit in 1994 was about $3,000, excluding the approximately 70 hours of labor it took to construct. The 25-foot-long unit is built on the frame of a mobile home trailer salvaged from a flood. The original plan was to keep the shell intact so that it could be used in any weather. 

But concerns about heat from the scalder making the enclosed space unbearable in warm weather and difficulty maintaining good sanitation -- as well as the poor condition of the original flooring -- led the staff to strip the trailer down to the frame. They extended and reinforced the frame with angle-iron, and added a metal grating floor for easy hose-down.

The components of the system include: 
5 poultry crates to handle live birds. 
5 poultry kill cones to ensure proper bleeding. 
A propane-fired scalder fashioned from a metal drum capable of handling three or four birds at a time. 
A homemade 3- to 4-bird barrel-type feather plucker. 
A stainless steel processing table. 
Chilling tanks. 
Knives and scales. 
A 20-foot tarp that can be raised to provide shade or protection from the elements. 
Hookups for 110-volt electricity and water. 

(Reprinted from the Sustainable Farming Connection web site)

The components on the original MPU were home made to keep costs low. New units contain all new parts due to warrantees and the inability to travel to some locations to personally repair any problems associated with home made parts. We have rough plans available to build the picker and scalder as well as a floor plan of the MPU. If you would like a set send a check for $10.00 (US) to Cornerstone Farm Ventures, 242 Dan Main Rd., Norwich, NY 13815. The set includes pictures of the unit as well as parts list and places to purchase the components.

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For more information call us toll free at 

Cornerstone Farm Ventures
242 Dan Main Rd.
Norwich, NY 13815
Tel: 607.334.2833
E-mail: info@cornerstone-farm.com

 

 

This page was last updated on 01/16/2009

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