摘要 |
<p>An apparatus for use in stunning fowl prior to slaughter has means for passing a predetermined electrical current through a series of items of varying electrical resistance including a continuous shackle train (10) having shackles (11) evenly spaced along its length, a water bath (15), electrical circuitry (21) having a connection to the bath (15) and means (12, 16, 17) for connecting the circuitry to the shackles (11) such that any object bridging a shackle (11) and the water bath (15) completes an individual electrical circuit, the circuitry being adapted (20) to maintain the predetermined current in all the circuits.</p> |