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| Author(s): |
José Antonio Delfino Barbosa Filho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2008-05-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Iran José Oliveira da Silva;
Antonio Augusto Domingos Coelho;
Douglas Emygdio de Faria;
Sergio Oliveira Moraes;
Tadayuki Yanagi Junior
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| Advisor: | Iran José Oliveira da Silva |
| Abstract | |
Nowadays, the Brazilian poultry meat production is one of most important agribusiness sectors, which expansion and maintenance of the trade market is directly related with the final product quality. The interactions of environmental factors with preslaughter operations are important factors to be considered, once those losses can occur during this process. Thus, the aim of this research was to attend in commercial conditions, during two seasons of the year (winter and summer), the whole poultry preslaughter operations, through continuous monitoring of environmental variables (temperature and relative humidity) and deaths on arrival (DOA´s). A total of 16 loads was monitored, since catching until lairage on slaughterhouse, which transport conditions evaluated considering factors as distance (short, medium and long) and periods of the day (morning, afternoon and night). For the acquisition of environmental variables profile through the lorries, data loggers were installed within the truck, allowing a knowledge of microclimate where the animals were submitted and the profile viewing of Enthalpy Comfort Index (ECI), which allowed a classification of lorry regions in agreement with thermal comfort limits for poultry on the sixth week of development. The data set of temperature, relative humidity and ECI within the truck were analyzed, by the using of geostatistics, through the ordinary kriging method, for the obtainment of other points on the lorry. A principal components analysis (PCA) was realized, with the objective to validate the obtained profiles. Therefore, was possible to confirm that afternoon was the most critical period under environmental view, for all stages of preslaughter operations analyzed, independent of season (winter or summer), there is an increasing trade of DOA when transport distances were farther (greater time of transport) and the centered and bottom parts of lorry were the most problematic for the chickens, under microclimatic aspects, thus, more auspicious for occurring of losses. (AU) | |