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Moy Park chicken grower raises its biosecurity game
Moy Park chicken grower Graham Mcllroy has invested in a viewing gallery to improve the biosecurity as his farm in Aghadowey in what is a first for the Northern Ireland poultry industry.
The new viewing gallery will allow visitors to the farm to observe the birds from an elevated platform – without having to enter the poultry house.
The viewing gallery will be used to facilitate visits to the farm for customers, retailers and for educational purposes.
Better on-farm biosecurity is seen as one of the key ways of reducing the incidence of campylobacter in poultry.
The latest research from the Food Standards Agency suggests that over a six-month sampling period, an average of 70% of chickens in UK supermarkets were infected with the bacterium, which is the biggest cause of food poisoning in the UK.
David Mark, Moy Park General Manager Agricultural Projects said; Moy Park is proactive in encouraging our growers to pioneer cutting-edge technology. Graham is an award-winning grower and his farm is the perfect showcase of the use of state-of-the-art innovations in sustainable poultry farming.
Mcllroy already makes use of sustainable farming practices, including advanced biosecurity controls, a biomass hot water heating system, solar panels and the innovating use of local wood chips to fuel his biomass boilers.
Moy Park has also introduced a number of measures across its factories to reduce campylobacter contamination of chickens during processing and complement on-farm biosecurity measures.
At the Anwick Moy Park plant, it uses a hot water sprayer to disinfect the necks of birds before they are removed.
