Every dead bird is a biohazard.
Flock Sentry patrols your broiler house around the clock and clears mortality in under two hours — through dust, ammonia, and the dark, without disturbing the flock. Every bird counted, straight to your phone.
The problem
The mortality walk is the hardest task in the barn to keep up.
Removing dead birds is the least automated, most labor-intensive, and highest-biosecurity-risk routine job in a broiler house. A worker walks the full 400-600 ft length of every house, every day, bending under low feed and water lines to recover carcasses from 40 g chicks to 3.5 kg market birds. A once- or twice-daily pass leaves carcasses in-house for hours, and every walk-through is itself a disturbance and an ingress event.
Scarce labor
Barn labor is hard to find and keep, and the mortality walk is exactly the dull, physical task growers most want to offload.
Open exposure window
Carcasses are concentrated pathogen sources. A daily cadence leaves them in-house for hours; faster removal directly shrinks the exposure window.
Welfare and product loss
Carcasses left in-pen drive cannibalism, ammonia, and odor, and raise outbreak risk near live birds.
Disruptive walk-throughs
Every human pass disturbs the flock and is itself a biosecurity entry and exit event.
How it works
A six-step cycle, repeated continuously.
Detect and confirm
On-robot AI fuses depth, LiDAR, thermal, and radar to find a carcass, then runs a confirmation behavior so it never targets a live bird.
Reach under the lines
A low-profile arm extends up to about 0.8 m to recover carcasses from beneath low feed and water lines, where a person cannot easily reach.
Gentle grasp
A conforming, force-limited gripper isolates a single carcass from the litter and adjacent birds without scooping a second bird.
Batch in the sealed bin
Each carcass is deposited into a sealed, leak-proof bin so the robot keeps patrolling instead of returning after every pickup.
Tip at the drop-off
When the bin is full or the route ends, the robot drives to an operator-configured drop-off zone and tip-empties, then confirms it is clear.
Auto-recharge
On low charge it returns to its dock and tops up, then resumes the patrol where it left off. No human in the barn required.
Why Flock Sentry
One machine, the values that matter most.
Biosecurity
High-frequency removal is designed to shrink the carcass exposure window from the manual 12-24 h to a target sweep of two hours or less, cutting the between-flock disease reservoir.
Labor relief
Flock Sentry takes over the daily mortality walk across 400-600 ft houses, with a design target of at least 50% fewer mortality-walk labor-hours and roughly two-thirds fewer in-barn trips.
Animal welfare and audit
Slow, predictable, sub-1 mph motion and a zero live-bird mishandling target are built to protect NCC and GAP audit standing, with audit-ready records on demand.
Autonomy in a hostile barn
It runs in heavy dust, ammonia, and near-total darkness, auto-recharges, and is sealed for washdown. It does not stop when the lights go out.
Monitoring and data
Every detection and pickup is logged with a daily mortality count and spatial heatmap, so disease and heat patterns surface early in absolute birds per day.
Mission control
See the whole barn from your phone.
The Flock Sentry app is the calm command center for the barn. Live status, mortality trends, and a spatial heatmap put real-time flock health in your pocket, and human-assist alerts tell you exactly when and where a person is needed.
Daily mortality count
True flock mortality in absolute birds per day, including carcasses the robot collected, queued, or flagged as unreachable.
Spatial heatmap
See where deaths cluster across the barn to catch heat, ventilation, or disease patterns early.
Human-assist alerts
When a sustained spike outruns one robot, or a carcass is out of safe reach, the app pinpoints what needs a person, with location.
Audit-ready records
Exportable logs of pickups, yields, and welfare events, retained for at least a full flock cycle, ready for NCC and GAP review.
Ready when you are
Put a sentry in every barn.
Book a walkthrough to see how Flock Sentry fits your houses, your cadence, and your biosecurity plan.