期刊
MEAT SCIENCE
卷 110, 期 -, 页码 310-314出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.03.026
关键词
Slaughter; Halal; Cattle; Behaviour; Upright restraint; Cut position
资金
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) UK [MH0149]
This study examined the effect of neck cut position on the time to physical collapse in upright restrained halal slaughtered cattle (n = 644). Time to collapse was used as an indirect indicator of the early stages of onset of unconsciousness. Cattle were slaughtered with either a conventional low (LNC) (n = 561) or a high neck cut (HNC) (n = 83). Mean time to final collapse was higher in the LNC compared to HNC group (18.9 +/- 1.1 s and 13.5 +/- 1.3 s respectively (P<0.01)). The mean false aneurysm scores were higher in the LNC cattle (0.8 +/- 0.0) compared to the HNC (0.6 +/- 0.1) (P < 0.01). Animals that took >20 s to final collapse had larger false aneurysms. In summary, the HNC reduced the mean time to final collapse and the frequency of animals that took longer than 20 s to collapse. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/cc-by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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