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|  |  | Probst, Johanna K.; Meili, Eric; Spengler Neff, Anet. |  | During the pre-slaughter period cattle experience novel environment and procedures causing reduced welfare and stress. This period involves a number of critical  situations: loading, transport, unloading, meeting unfamiliar animals, fixation. Therefore, stress is an inevitable consequence of transporting animals from a farm to the abattoir. In Switzerland, the first farmer recently started with a stress reducing cattle slaughter method within a pilot project: the slaughtering via gunshot on farm. Only the carcass has to be transported. Usually direct marketing farmers are transporting single animals to the next small-scale slaughterhouse. Therefore those two slaughter methods were compared regarding stress related parameters. Slaughtering always took place... |  
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. | Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health Beef cattle Health and welfare. |  
| Ano: 2017 | URL: http://orgprints.org/31803/1/Auswirkungen%20von%20Stressoren%20vor%20der%20Schlachtung%20auf.pdf |  |  |  
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