Cage live bird handling system is the simplest of the live bird handling systems,
designed to accept cages with poultry closed with a flap on top.
Thanks to their special shape, the cages are stacked on top of each other during transport,
so they do not require the use of an additional storage medium during unloading.
(1) A stack of cages is picked up from the trailer
to be placed on a conveyor that accumulates up to 3 stacks before feeding them to the cage destacker (2) releasing 3 cages from the bottom level onto a chain conveyor.
(3) The conveyor transports the cages to the manual hanging area (4), where workers will empty them of live animals.
Empty cages are transported and rotated (5) for washing
by a washer (6), which is responsible for washing and rinsing the cages so that they can be loaded back onto the truck
and filled with poultry cages free of the risk of disease transmission to the poultry house.