Animal welfare during transport: comparison of mortality during transport from farm to slaughter of different animal species and categories in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2022.2038038" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2022.2038038</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2022.2038038" target="_blank" >10.1080/1828051X.2022.2038038</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Animal welfare during transport: comparison of mortality during transport from farm to slaughter of different animal species and categories in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Animals may be subjected to various stressors during transport, which may compromise their health and welfare as well as meat quality. In the chain of operations between a farm and a slaughterhouse, animal transport is probably the most stressful and injurious stage. Data on mortality is commonly collected at slaughterhouse as a retrospective indicator of animal welfare during transport. Ten-year prevalence of mortality of all the species and categories of animals (cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, poultry, rabbits and ostriches) regularly scheduled for slaughter in the Czech slaughterhouses was assessed as dead on arrival after road transport from 2010 to 2019. Among livestock, the highest mortality was found in pigs (0.065%); statistically higher compared to cattle (0.027%) and sheep (0.015%). In animals shipped in containers (rabbits, broiler chickens, end-of-lay hens, turkeys, geese and ducks), the highest prevalence was found in laying hens (0.507%), statistically higher compared to broiler chickens (0.425%) and rabbits (0.199%). The lowest prevalence was observed in geese (0.003%). There was a trend for decreasing death losses of pigs in more recent years and losses in broiler chickens and ducks increased. The results indicate that the current transport conditions should be re-evaluated for poultry. Emphasis should be put on the assessment of animal fitness before transport. This is especially important for animals at the end of their production cycle such as dairy cows, sows, and laying hens. They were more likely to die during the journey.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Italian Journal of Animal Science

ISSN

1594-4077

e-ISSN

1828-051X

Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

914-923

UT code for WoS article

000799169600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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