The Council Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2009 requires slaughterhouse managers to implement specific standard operating procedures for all pre-slaughter stages considered at risk, aimed at achieving adequate levels of animal welfare. This survey was aimed at testing the applicability to an abattoir for heavy pigs of an assessment system of animal welfare through animal-based measures. In the monito...

Three pens of barrows and three of gilts were assigned to one of three treatments: a control diet with “normal” levels of vitamin supplements, the same diet with vitamin supplements removed or the same diet with vitamin supplements tripled. Pigs received these diets for 35 days prior to marketing, during which time, performance was monitored, and after which, carcass merit was recorded and musc...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between pre-slaughter factors and major causes of total or partial carcass condemnation in a broiler slaughterhouse under federal inspection. Data on condemnations 2018 2020 were collected from 10 farms supplying located northern Paraná State, Brazil. The sample comprised 2,562,642 birds. analyzed age at slaughter, stocking density, weight feed c...

The effect of genotype, sex and hatch on carcass traits and physical characteristics of eggs was investigated in the Japanese quail. Two strains of Japanese quails including the White (P1) and Wild (P2) genotypes were chosen as the parental generation and crossed reciprocally (10 single-pair mating) to create the F1 progeny. The F1 birds (27 males and 81 females) were mated randomly to produce ...