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Effect of handling and transport on bruising in sheep sent directly from farms to slaughter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

A M Jarvis
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Veterinary Field Station, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RG
M S Cockram
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Veterinary Field Station, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RG
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Bruising of sheep results in economic loss to the meat industry and is one indicator of welfare problems associated with pre-slaughter management. This study relates potentially traumatic handling and behavioural events (wool-pull, tail-pull, fall, hit structure, riding, head-butt, other) during loading on farms, unloading and handling at a slaughterhouse, the initial 3 h in the lairage, and conditions during transport, to the occurrence of carcase bruising of 79 groups of sheep (n=2509) transported direct from farms to one of two commercial slaughterhouses.

Type
Pig Welfare & Ruminant Welfare
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1995

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