Macroscopic Examination of Multiple-Shot Cattle Heads—An Animal Welfare Due Diligence Tool for Abattoirs Using Penetrating Captive Bolt Devices?

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The most common method of stunning cattle prior to bleeding in an abattoir is a penetrating captive bolt device, which is basically a piston driven forward by expanding gas produced by a blank cartridge. This creates a concussed state in the animal on impact with the skull, followed...

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Autores principales: Grist, Andrew, Knowles, Toby G., Wotton, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31174418
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9060328

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31174418
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9060328

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