PROCESSES AND
FACILITIES
PROCESSES AND
FACILITIES
Lirica has all the proper facilities to ensure an organized line of production that allows the crocodile farming process to flow all the way from the breeders to the raw/salted skins, guaranteeing optimum skin conditions for skin tanning.
Caiman Crocodile Breeders
American Crocodile Breeders
Egg recollection
8,000 Cayman breeders are divided into 17 lagoon closures.
350 breeder are, distributed in 19 breeding closures.
During breeding seasons, our experts manually collect the eggs from the nests.
Incubation
Growth Stages
Water Treatment Plant
Nests are placed into specially designed containers and preserved under strict incubation parameters to assure a healthy development of the embryo before hatching.
Classified by size, animals are divided into 4 growing stages:
- Neonatal
- Nursery
- Pre-juvenile
- Juvenile
The water used to raise and grow the crocodiles is collected in a treatment plant, where it is treated through natural flocculation, aeration, and filtering processes to remove the content of solids and microorganisms to recycle water for future productions.
Compost
Where all the organic waste is processed and transformed into a natural fertilizer.