Association between driving actions and animal stress in mobile slaughter of cattle

Abstract

Rough handling at slaughter can affect cattle welfare negatively. Aiming to study associations of stress-related animal behaviours and time intervals for driving, stunning and sticking with stockperson driving actions, we made initial observations at a commercial mobile slaughter plant on 11 days at nine Swedish cattle farms.

Keywords

cattle; mobile slaughter; stress

Published in

Title: Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of the International Society for Animal Hygiene: "INternational Co-operation and Solidarity in Animal Hygiene towards One Health"
Publisher: International Society for Animal Hygiene and Autonomous University of Sinaloa

Conference

XVIII ISAH Congress 2017, March 19-23, 2017, Mazatlàn, Sinaloa, Mexico

SLU Authors

• Hultgren, Jan

  • Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Berg, Lotta

  • Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Algers, Bo

  • Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science


UKÄ Subject classification

Other Veterinary Science


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/84598