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slaughterhouses, etc ; animal welfare; barns; growth performance; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of slatted flooring beneath waterlines in broiler barns on litter quality and, subsequently, footpad health. The hypothesis tested was that installing slatted flooring underneath waterlines helps to improve litter quality and thus reduces footpad diseases, enhancing animal welfare as a result. Five experimental runs with two groups were conducted. E ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; beef cattle; probability; veal; Italy; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The assessment of bruises on carcasses at the slaughterhouse has been lately indicated as a valid method to evaluate cattle welfare. However, little is known about the prevalence and the causes of bruises of cattle slaughtered in Italy. The aim of this study was to collect information concerning the prevalence of bruises on the carcasses of beef cattle slaughtered in an Italian abattoir and to det ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; clay; research; sewage sludge; soil; tillage; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The manuscript describes the natural soil amendments used in agriculture, divided into three groups: organic, organic-mineral, and mineral amendments. The article also includes less popular agents, such as clay minerals, sewage sludge, and amendments based on the slaughterhouse wastes. A separate group is algae base amendments that are becoming more and more popular. The results presented in the m ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; Scenedesmus; anaerobic digestion; biomass production; energy; heat; microalgae; temperature; Show all 8 Subjects
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... This study investigated the possibility of enhancing the biomass productivity and nutrient removal of microalgae grown in raceway ponds through temperature regulation. Scenedesmus sp. grown in anaerobically digested abattoir effluent (ADAE) was cultivated outdoor in eight raceway ponds. Seven ponds were subjected to different temperature regulation schemes (from 15 °C to 25 °C) and varying control ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; community structure; dead animals; disease transmission; photography; vultures; Ethiopia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Scavenging is an important ecological process. By quickly locating and consuming carrion, vertebrate scavengers cycle nutrients, stabilize food webs, and may help mitigate disease transmission to humans. Across Africa, many scavengers feed at abattoirs (i.e. slaughterhouses), thereby aiding in waste removal. Little information exists on the scavenger community composition and dynamics at abattoirs ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; animal welfare; genetic lines; heart; meat quality; pH; semimembranosus muscle; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Adjustment of key parameters of electrical stunning of pigs is necessary to better respect animal welfare and avoid impairments of meat quality. In the present study, we analysed the effect of genetic line, stunning program and genetic line × stunning program interactions on stunning effectiveness, carcass and meat quality traits in 10,338 pigs from five different genetic lines in a German slaught ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; Listeria monocytogenes; computer simulation; disinfection; growth retardation; meat; sanitation; swine; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Bacterial pathogens, such as Listeria monocytogenes, can show resistance to disinfection and persistence on working surfaces, permitting them to survive and contaminate food products. Persistence—a complex phenomenon involving interactions between many bacteria within a biofilm—is modulated by in situ characteristics. This study aimed to describe, in silico, the microbiota identified in a swine sl ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; air; antioxidants; carbon dioxide; cows; cysteine; gap junctions; metaphase; oocytes; ultrastructure; Show all 10 Subjects
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... This study was designed to investigate the effect of different concentrations of L‐cysteine supplementation into the maturation medium on the oocyte nuclear maturation, cumulus cell expansion, ultrastructure of the oocytes and the expression of oocyte‐derived growth factors BMP‐15, GDF‐9 and CB‐1 genes. Cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) were collected from cow's ovaries obtained from abattoir and in ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; animal-based foods; cattle; liver; meat; public health; risk assessment; Algeria; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Meat is a food of animal origin, which can be contaminated by infectious, parasitic and other non-infectious agents responsible for diseases, which threaten the health of consumers. This still poses a public health problem in Algeria and in many countries. In order to assess the epidemiological situation of certain diseases in the Taher region in Jijel and to determine the influence of certain var ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; antibiotic resistance; cephalosporins; extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli; food microbiology; public health; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The worldwide spread of Extra-intestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC), together with the antimicrobial resistance linked with extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamases (pAmpCs) are pressing threats for public health. This study aimed to investigate the presence of ExPEC genes in third-generation cephalosporin (3 GC)-resistant E. coli and to study their di ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; Campylobacter; Escherichia coli; Salmonella; food safety; hygiene; neck; red meat; risk; Serbia; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Risk categorisation of abattoirs based on their hygiene process performances has been suggested as an essential component of a risk-based meat safety assurance system. Two large-scale and two small-scale poultry abattoirs, located in Serbia, were subjects of the study aiming to investigate the usefulness of testing for pathogens and indicator microorganisms for abattoir risk categorisation. Fifty ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; agriculture; ambient temperature; animal welfare; climatic zones; electronics; slaughter; transportation; weather; Denmark; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Management of ambient temperature is central in sow production, but temperature in commercial trucks transporting sows has only received limited scientific focus. We aimed to describe temperature inside trucks depending on season and on shifts in state of the trucks (‘non-stationary’, ‘stopped’, ‘waiting’) transporting sows (up to 8 h) to slaughter. Temperature outside the trucks was described dur ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; DNA fragmentation; apoptosis; blastocyst; chromatin; embryogenesis; germinal vesicle; reproductive performance; summer; winter; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Although the reproductive performance of grazing cattle is lower in summer compared to winter, the effect of season on oocyte developmental competence has not been thoroughly examined. We measured the effect of season on oocyte chromatin compaction, cumulus cell quality, and embryonic development after in vitro fertilization. Cumulus oocytes-complexes (COCs) were collected from abattoir cows’ ovar ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; HACCP; Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli; beef; boning; sanitation; slaughter; zero tolerance; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The aim of this work was to reinforce actions tending to reduce Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in beef products from an Argentinean commercial abattoir implementing Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) practices. An environmental stx map was built with 421 environmental samples from the slaughter, quartering, cool chamber and deboning sectors (February-May 2013). For s ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; Porcine circovirus-2; antigens; farms; genes; genotype; lungs; selection pressure; wild boars; Malaysia; Show all 10 Subjects
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... This paper aims to update the molecular status of porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) in Malaysia. Firstly, the molecular detection rate of PCV2 in farm and sampled pig population were reported to be 83.78% (31/37 farms) and 83.54% (66/79 pigs) positive for PCV2, respectively. PCV2 was detected across all age groups, from fetuses, porkers to sows. Co-detection of PCV2 and PCV3 antigens was also reported a ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; Escherichia coli; Japan; antibiotic resistance; doxycycline; feces; feed additives; growth retardation; plasmids; swine; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Tetracyclines (TCs) are widely used for livestock, and the high prevalence of TC-resistant Escherichia coli in livestock has become a serious concern worldwide. In Japan, the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in 2016 aimed to reduce the TC resistance rate in E. coli derived from livestock. Flavophospholipol (FPL), used as a feed additive, has an inhibitory effect on the spread of pl ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; DNA; Vicugna pacos; alpacas; cortex; embryo culture; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; metaphase; oocytes; research; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The development of reproductive biotechnologies is essential for the productive improvement of South American camelids. The present study was conducted to examinate the potential maturation of alpaca’s oocytes derived from small and large follicles, as well as perform intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) after in vitro maturation (IVM). Ovaries were collected from a slaughterhouse and transport ...
Alexandria P. Snider; Matthew S. Crouse; Shelby L. Rosasco; Kaitlin M. Epperson; Emmalee J. Northrop-Albrecht; Jerica J.J. Rich; Chadwick C. Chase; Jeremy R. Miles; George A. Perry; Adam F. Summers; Robert A. Cushman
slaughterhouses, etc ; beef; embryogenesis; endometrium; glucose; glucose transporters; insemination; ovarian follicles; pregnancy; primary energy; trophoblast; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Increased antral follicles are associated with greater fertility and a uterine environment that is more supportive of early embryonic development in beef heifers. Glucose is a primary energy source for embryos, and glucose concentrations are elevated in uterine luminal fluid (ULF) of pregnant heifers. We hypothesized that ULF glucose concentrations and endometrial transcript abundance for glucose ...
... BACKGROUND: The species complex of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato (s.l.) causes cystic echinococcosis distributed worldwide. There is no genotype information from hydatid cysts in the intermediate hosts in Central Iran. Therefore, in this study, we analyzed the hydatid cysts in livestock slaughtered in an abattoir in this region. Six hundred fifty-seven hydatid cysts were isolated from 97 anim ...
slaughterhouses, etc ; ambient temperature; beef; cattle; climate; feedlots; grain-fed livestock; pH; rain; risk; solar radiation; Show all 11 Subjects
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... It has been well-established that dark cutting (DC) is a multifactorial issue that is associated with numerous animal and management factors. However, there is limited understanding of the feedlot-based factors that contribute to the influence of DC. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of climate, animal, and feedlot factors on the incidence of pH non-compliance in Australian grain-fe ...