Gebresenbet, Girma
- Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Transport in general compromises animals’ health and welfare, meat quality, increases the risk of spread of infectious diseases over large distances, and also degrades the environment in terms of pollution emanating from vehicles. Currently, no continuous information is available on (a) the climatic conditions, i.e., temperature, relative humidity, and level of gases in the loading compartment, (b) vehicle performance (particularly vibration), (c) driving routes and performances, and (d) animal behaviour when subjected to uncomfortable conditions during transport. In line with the above objectives, instrumentation of different categories and logistical and control system has been developed and tested has been developed.. With the surveillance system it could be possible to trace all animals from the farm to the abattoir while animal welfare can be monitored by measuring climatic conditions in the vehicle and behavior, which gives an additional guarantee to the consumer.
Keywords
animal transport; Animal welfare; monitoring system
Published in
Publisher: Brill
Conference
Proceedings of the 4th Congress of ECPA and 1st congress ECPLF
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Animal and Dairy Science
Veterinary Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865154_008
- ISBN: 9789076998220
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/2454