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Veterinary Sciences, 2023 This investigation was conducted to determine how the growth and carcass traits of meat-type sheep breeds raised in Turkey are associated with IGF1 5′UTR polymorphisms. Overall, 202 lambs from five breeds were evaluated.
Vasfiye Kader Esen, Selim Esen
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Animal-Based Measurements to Assess the Welfare of Dairy Cull Cows during Pre-Slaughter
Animals, 2020 Culling is the departure of cows from the herd as a result of sale, slaughter, health, national regulations, salvage, or death. Cull cows are removed from farms with poor health, production, behavior, or other problems, and during pre-slaughter they are ...
Marlyn H. Romero +2 more
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Genetic and phenotypic trends for carcass traits in Irish beef cattle
Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 2023 Animals subjected to intensive genetic selection require continuous monitoring to observe changes in economically important traits. The focus of this research was to estimate genetic and phenotypic trends for carcass traits for three genotypes: dairy dam
S.A. Mulhall +3 more
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Animal, 2012 The aim of the study was to determine changes of serum cortisol and biochemical, haematological and antioxidant enzyme variables in the blood of horses sampled during the pre-slaughter period (in the lairage and in the stunning box) and during ...
A. Nemec Svete +3 more
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Avoiding live-animal transport to slaughter: mobile abattoirs
, 2022 Large-scale, automation, high process line speeds and a cheap and easily replaceable workforce enabled the industrialisation of slaughter during the 19th and 20th centuries, and continued consolidation, vertical integration and high-tech inventions took ...
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. +1 more
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Animals, 2017 Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomical dissection with a knife—and in particular the rapid location and removal of specific organs—led some to speculate that he must have been surgically ...
Andrew Knight, Katherine D. Watson
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Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2021 The subject of halal slaughtering is one of the most widely discussed issues of animal cruelty and animal welfare in the public sphere. The discrepancy in understanding the contemporary and religious laws pertaining to animal slaughtering does not fully ...
Karrar Imad Abdulsahib Al-Shammari
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Indicators used in livestock to assess unconsciousness after stunning: a review
Animal, 2015 Assessing unconsciousness is important to safeguard animal welfare shortly after stunning at the slaughter plant. Indicators that can be visually evaluated are most often used when assessing unconsciousness, as they can be easily applied in slaughter ...
M.T.W. Verhoeven +3 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 IntroductionRecently, a special bullet shooting stunner for heavy cattle has been developed that fires a bullet instead of a bolt. In the search for a suitable ammunition, the following criteria must be met: First, the energy of the bullet must be ...
Dominic Gascho +6 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 A cross-sectional study of lungs from 1,887 randomly selected pigs from 471 farms from two provinces in the Philippines was carried out to estimate the prevalence of gross pathological lesions, identify potential risk factors and spatial clustering ...
John I. Alawneh +12 more
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