Abattoir Practices and Animal Products Technology

AREA SIZE

• The size of the site should be given a careful consideration with allowance for the various buildings and traffic circulation.
• Modern livestock and meat transport vehicles have very large turning circles: 14 m for a vehicle 15 m long.
• Completely separate routes for stock and meat vehicles should be provided.
• Approach roads should be at least 6 m wide.
• When all the various buildings are considered, it will be realized that a large area is necessary.

Area requirement

• Generally for a small abattoir (up to 30,000 units*/year) the area required will be about 1-2 acres.
• For a medium plant (50,000+ units*/year) about 2-4 acres will be required.
• A large abattoir handling over 100,000 units* annually will require about 4-6 acres of land.

       *One livesotock unit is equivalent to ONE adult bovine or TWO pigs, THREE calves or FIVE sheep.