This is the project that should give hope to fat poultry farmers in Sarladais, after the nightmare of avian flu. The new fatty poultry slaughterhouse will see the light of day in the Périgord Noir, towards the end of 2023. It will be set up in a warehouse on the Rougié canneries siteat the exit of Sarlat on the departmental 704. The architect in charge of the project must meet the breeders and the elected officials this Tuesday, July 26th.
The project is in the boxes for four years now, carried by a group of breeders. It was supposed to save producers money, by preventing them from having to slaughter on the farm. It was also to replace the old slaughterhouse of the ESAT de Prats de Carlux, too expensive to bring up to standard, and badly located, right next to the unique goose hatchery in France which absolutely must be protected from avian flu. But the project has been delayed because the site initially envisaged, terminal 120 between Proissans and Saint Crépin and Carlucet, has been abandoned for technical reasons. Some breeders have withdrawn.
Do less, but do better
Avian flu has also reshuffled the cards. No more dreams of grandeur when four years ago, we were talking about slaughtering 270,000 animals a year, and being able to go up to 400,000, with ultra-modern machines. With the bird flu crisis, many breeders now want to reduce their production. Do less, but do better. The future slaughterhouse will target 100,000 poultry per year. With quality work, unlike industrial slaughterhouses.
The sale of the land is in the process of being settled. It is the local authorities, the Sarlat Périgord noir community of communes and the Pays de Fénelon community of communes that pay for real estate and construction. The breeders’ group will pay for the equipment. For the elect, this new slaughterhouse is a way to give hope to breeders : “The objective is to sustain our farms, one of the difficulties of which is slaughter”assures Benoît Secrestat, the mayor of Proissans: “It is certain that the bird flu did not help, but we decided to go anyway to give our breeders a perspective for the future”.