Features

Features

Hogs walk stress-free as a group onto an elevator car called a gondola which lowers them into an atmosphere of CO2 (carbon dioxide). CO2 is a safe anesthetic used in hospitals. When the gondola returns to floor level the hogs are lying down gently sleeping without movement or sound.

Benefits

CO2 gas stunning generates more profit, yields more high quality meat, improves working conditions, promotes animal welfare, and complies with federal humane slaughter regulations.

Advantages

Advantages

CO2 gas stunning generates more profit, yields more high quality meat, improves working conditions, promotes animal welfare, and complies with federal humane slaughter regulations.

Capacity

Capacity

Each gondola in the Hog-Wild system can handle up to 180 hogs per hour. Capacity is increased by installing more gondolas.

Meat Quality

Meat Quality

PSE meat is a problem generally associated with electroshock stunning – a problem that is solved by the Hog-Wild Automation CO2 gas stunning system.

CO2 Anesthesia

CO2 Anesthesia

The carbon dioxide gas used to stun hogs, CO2, is the same gas used to perform surgical anesthesia for people in hospitals.

Handling Guidelines

Handling Guidelines

Optimal hog handling procedures help improve profits, meat quality, working conditions and animal welfare.