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Welfare issues at slaughter
No full textThis chapter discusses animal welfare in the context of slaughter and reviews the types of welfare issues that some animals can experience before and during slaughter. It shows how animal feelings such as pain, distress, fear, hunger, thirst, fatigue and discomfort can be affected by the procedures associated with slaughter and how responses to these states can be recognized. It concludes with a discussion on methods of assessing animal welfare at slaughter
The Affect of Animal Gender on Fed Cattle Producer Marketing Behavior
No full textWeekly grid market share by volume for slaughter steers is compared to slaughter heifers. Summary statistics indicate average grid market share for steers (42%) is 27% higher than slaughter heifers (33%). The literature indicates that pregnancy and increased dark cutter incidence associated with heifers relative to steers creates additional financial risk when heifers are sold on a grid. Econometric analysis suggests grid market share is less sensitive to change in market conditions for heifers relative to steers. The empirical evidence is consistent with the supposition that marketing heifers is riskier than marketing steers on a grid. Thus sellers need stronger economic incentives to market heifers on a grid relative to steers.grid pricing, fed cattle, animal gender, risk, Livestock Production/Industries, Q00,
Effect of Slaughter Weight on Carcass Characteristics and Cutability of Imported Merino Wethers
No full textForty five imported Australian Merino wethers were equally allotted to three predetermined weight groups of 52, 58 and 65 kg. The effect of slaughter weight on carcass characteristics and cutability was determined: The results indicated that, dressing percentage, KPH fat weight, loin eye area, body wall thickness and the various wholesale cut weights increased linearly (p < 0.01) as slaughter weight or cold carcass weight increased. While the loin eye area did not increase significantly between the 52 and 58 kg weight groups, it did from 58 to 65 kg. The correlations of slaughter weight and cold carcass weight with all studied carcass characteristics were positive and highly significant (p < 0.01), except for body fat thickness and for dressing percentage. On the other hand, fat thickness and body wall thickness had unfavorable correlations with loin eye area and dressing percentage.Corresponding Author:
Dr. Mohamed Abouheif
Professor of Sheep Production, Department of Animal Production, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Email: [email protected]
Don’t Diffuse The Light; Shine It All : A Chat With William Slaughter, Editor of Mudlark
No full textWilliam Slaughter is editor of Mudlark, an electronic journal of poetry and poetics, and author of The Politics of My Heart and Untold Stories, books of poems and essays, and Older Men, an e-chapbook. His work has been published in magazines ranging from Poetry (Chicago) to Exquisite Corpse in the United States; Malahat Review, Prism International, and Fiddlehead in Canada; Critical Quarterly (England), Poetry Australia, Frank (France), and People’s Daily in China, for example. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Florida, has had Senior Fulbright Lectureships to China and Egypt, and has twice taught at the Florida State University London Study Centre
C.C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch in Cochran and Hockley counties, 1898-1921.
No full textLikely added to or created for the author's thesis: "A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C. C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch" (Texas Tech University, 1970).Scale approximately 1:337,920 (W 102°59'24"--W 102°18'53"/N 33°50'54"--N 33°24'07")The map illustrates the 250,000-acre holdings of C.C. Slaughter, known as the "Cattle King of Texas," before the ranch's liquidation and subdivision beginning in 1921 (following his death in 1919)
Record 2006 Hog Slaughter and Pork Production Means Moderating Profits
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Interview with Jane Slaughter
No full textSlaughter is a leading national writer, journalist, and educator. As co-director of Labor Notes, she is a leader of the radical wing of the U.S. labor movement from the 1970s to 2010s. Author of many books, including Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept (with Mike Parker). Slaughter also acted as a consultant to Maine paper unions in 1988 and 1989.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sd-warren/1010/thumbnail.jp
Risk factors at slaughter associated with presence of Salmonella on hog carcasses in Canada
No full textDespite the application of hazard analysis and critical control point systems at slaughter and during processing, Salmonella contamination is still a significant biological hazard associated with pork products. A better understanding of risk factors in slaughterhouses and of contamination sources is therefore critical to improve control of this bacterium in the abattoirs. The objectives of this study were to identify the risk factors at slaughter that are associated with the presence of Salmonella on hog carcasses and to assess possible sources of contamination. A questionnaire on potential risk factors was developed. Over 7,400 hogs originating from 312 randomly selected production lots were tested. The lots were from 10 different abattoirs located in five different Canadian provinces. At slaughter, blood was collected for serological analysis, and mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) and carcass swabs were collected for Salmonella analysis. Furthermore, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was conducted to establish the genetic profiles of selected isolates from carcasses and MLN and to compare these profiles with those recovered from the slaughter environment. Multivariate regression analysis results indicated that the cleanliness of the hogs and the status of the scald water were factors significantly associated with the Salmonella status of the carcasses at the end of the slaughter process. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis showed that most isolates from carcasses were similar to those from animals (MLN) or the preevisceration environment.Accession Number: 19903396. Language: English. Language Code: eng. Date Created: 20091111. Date Completed: 20100129. Update Code: 20111122. Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't. Journal ID: 7703944. Publication Model: Print. Cited Medium: Print. NLM ISO Abbr: J. Food Prot. Linking ISSN: 0362028X. Subset: IM. Date of Electronic Publication: 20091101; ID: 1990339
Seroprevalence of Ascaris suum compared to milk spot prevalence at slaughter in Italian fattening pigs
No full textAscaris suum is one of the most important parasites of pigs. Apart from liver condemnation due to lesions caused
by migrating larvae (“milk spots”), A. suum infections can compromise weight gain, feed conversion efficacy, as
well as meat quality. The true prevalence of infection depends on the diagnostic test used and is often under-
estimated. We compared liver inspection at slaughter with serology, based on the recognition of a purified
A. suum haemoglobin or complete homogenate of the 3rd stage larvae isolated from lungs, in nine pig farms in
northern Italy. Liver lesions were found on all farms with prevalence ranging from 3.8% to 98.3%. All farms were
also positive for circulating antibodies against As-Hb and As-Lung-L3, with prevalence among pigs on each farm
ranging from 36.4–100% and 54.5–100%, respectively. Seroprevalence was consistently higher when compared
to the prevalence of milk spots at slaughter. The higher sensitivity of the ELISA tests combined with their ease of
use makes them an interesting tool to evaluate A. suum infection levels
Women & Foreign Policy: How Women-Centric Policy Benefits Us All
No full textThe 2012 CSB Renaissance Lecture was given by Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, foreign policy expert, professor and author, and former Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State. She spoke on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 7:00 pm in Gorecki 204A/B (CSB). The topic of her speech was Women & Foreign Policy: How Women-Centric Policy Benefits Us All
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