Gas stunning for small poultry operations

The new gas stunning unit is highly customisable, but the one installed on Kelly s farm can stun 300 turkeys an hour. Photo: Jake Davies

Gas stunning represents a higher-welfare way to deliver an unrecoverable stun to poultry, when compared with an electric water bath. But the expense has been prohibitive for smaller producers – one UK business is trying to change that with a new device. Gas stunning is used by many larger poultry integrations and is widely considered a higher-welfare and more controllable way to deliver an unrecoverable stun to birds. And retailers in the UK and Western Europe often specify gas stunning for t