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Animal-Based Measurements to Assess the Welfare of Dairy Cull Cows during Pre-Slaughter

open access: yesAnimals, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic and phenotypic trends for carcass traits in Irish beef cattle

open access: yesIrish 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
doaj   +1 more source

Serum cortisol and haematological, biochemical and antioxidant enzyme variables in horse blood sampled in a slaughterhouse lairage, immediately before stunning and during exsanguination

open access: yesAnimal, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Was Jack the Ripper a Slaughterman? Human-Animal Violence and the World’s Most Infamous Serial Killer

open access: yesAnimals, 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Review of the Halal Poultry Slaughtering from Welfare and Legal Perspectives: Analysis of Research Results

open access: yesStudia 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
doaj   +1 more source

Indicators used in livestock to assess unconsciousness after stunning: a review

open access: yesAnimal, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ballistic study on the penetration potential and injury potential of different bullet types in the use of a newly developed bullet shooting stunner for adequate stunning of heavy cattle

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Gross Pulmonary Lesions in Slaughtered Pigs in Smallholder and Commercial Farms in Two Provinces in the Philippines

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Retrospective Study after 10 Years (2010–2019) of Meat Inspection Activity in a Domestic Swine Abattoir in Tuscany: The Slaughterhouse as an Epidemiological Observatory

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
The activities performed by the Official Veterinarian at the slaughterhouse represent a useful source of data for the control of issues affecting human and animal health and welfare.
Lisa Guardone   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incidence of Characteristic Findings during Veterinary Carcass Inspections 2010–2019 in the Czech Republic and the Relation to the Level of Health and Welfare of Individual Classes of Cattle

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Pathological findings in individual classes of cattle were assessed from the viewpoint of their localization and category. The objective of the study was to evaluate whether there are differences in the range and number of findings made between the ...
Michal Kaluza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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