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Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact
The objective of this work was to characterize bruises in bovine carcasses in Uruguay and to evaluate the economic impact. Thirteen abattoirs were visited during 2 years and bruises were identified, classified, and quantified by zone and degree (depth and size). One hundred carcasses were separated...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29067169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/vms3.2 |
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author | Huertas, Stella M. van Eerdenburg, Frank Gil, Andrés Piaggio, José |
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description | The objective of this work was to characterize bruises in bovine carcasses in Uruguay and to evaluate the economic impact. Thirteen abattoirs were visited during 2 years and bruises were identified, classified, and quantified by zone and degree (depth and size). One hundred carcasses were separated and bruises were cut out and weighed separately. From a total of 15 157 carcasses observed, 60.0% had at least one bruise; 42.0% of these had bruises on both sides. The expensive butt zone was the most damaged, followed by rib, shoulder and loin, respectively. The mean weight and standard error of the condemned trimmed meat was 1602 ± 212 g. It suppose a loss of 899 g per animal slaugtered in Uruguay. In a country sending 2.5 million heads of cattle to be slaughter yearly, this indicates an important financial loss. Improving transport conditions and personnel skills will probably result in a better welfare for the animals as well as better financial profit. |
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spelling | pubmed-56458102017-10-24 Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact Huertas, Stella M. van Eerdenburg, Frank Gil, Andrés Piaggio, José Vet Med Sci Original Articles The objective of this work was to characterize bruises in bovine carcasses in Uruguay and to evaluate the economic impact. Thirteen abattoirs were visited during 2 years and bruises were identified, classified, and quantified by zone and degree (depth and size). One hundred carcasses were separated and bruises were cut out and weighed separately. From a total of 15 157 carcasses observed, 60.0% had at least one bruise; 42.0% of these had bruises on both sides. The expensive butt zone was the most damaged, followed by rib, shoulder and loin, respectively. The mean weight and standard error of the condemned trimmed meat was 1602 ± 212 g. It suppose a loss of 899 g per animal slaugtered in Uruguay. In a country sending 2.5 million heads of cattle to be slaughter yearly, this indicates an important financial loss. Improving transport conditions and personnel skills will probably result in a better welfare for the animals as well as better financial profit. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5645810/ /pubmed/29067169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/vms3.2 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Veterinary Medicine and Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Huertas, Stella M. van Eerdenburg, Frank Gil, Andrés Piaggio, José Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
title | Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
title_full | Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
title_short | Prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
title_sort | prevalence of carcass bruises as an indicator of welfare in beef cattle and the relation to the economic impact |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29067169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/vms3.2 |
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