A cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2016 to April 2017, to estimate the prevalence of major gross lung lesions in cattle slaughtered at Hawassa Municipal Abattoir, southern Ethiopia. A total of 563 male cattle were examined by antemortem examination, while postmortem lung lesions were done using standard inspection procedures. Association between prevalence and the explanatory v...

Meat consumers in the Middle East traditionally prefer meat from freshly slaughtered animals to that from chilled or frozen carcasses. Consequently, meat trade in the Middle East is based mainly upon the importation of large quantities of live animals rather than of sheep and goat carcasses. Furthermore, as it seems that pathogens remain viable for longer periods of time in live animals than in...

The first aim of the study was to compare selected meat quality parameters in porkers without the gene RYR1 (T) (ryanodine receptor gene). These were porkers slaughtered at 100 to 115 kg and 116 to 130 kg live weight. The second aim of the study was to determine the occurrence frequency of standard-quality meat (red, firm, nonexudative [RFN]) and the occurence frequency of defective meat (pale,...

AIM To determine the prevalence, antibiogram and pathogenicity of Salmonella spp. in the common food animals slaughtered for consumption purpose at government approved slaughter houses located in and around Nagpur region during a period of 2010-2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 400 samples comprising 50 each of blood and meat from each slaughtered male cattle, buffaloes, pigs and goats w...

This factorial study examined the potential of slaughtered cattle as a source of rumen fluid (RF) to test the impact of 0, 90, 180 g/kg forage (Amount) of 2 supplements (Low protein of 12% =LP; high protein of 25% =HP) on in vitro rumen degradation of grass nuts (Grass) and barley straw (Straw) over various times. RF was collected from three slaughtered cattle (Animal) on three separate occasio...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the inclusion vegetable oils in goat kid diets on performance, carcass traits, and meat composition, quality, fatty acid profile. Forty-eight Anglo Nubian kids were evaluated a completely randomized experimental design with four treatments, namely, control diet including 2.5% canola, sunflower, or soybean oils. animals slaughtered at 30 kg live weight...

introduction & objective: protein is one of the important nutritional groups of which the main source is domesticated animals. parasitic infection of these livestock is a threat to the meat resources as well as trouble to health of the user. so, the infection rate for zoon sis in each region can be an indicator for the health of the people living in that region. concerning the geographical situ...