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Application of the Welfare Quality® protocol in pig slaughterhouses of five countries

dc.contributor.authorDalmau, Antoni
dc.contributor.authorNande, Alexandre
dc.contributor.authorVieira-Pinto, Madalena
dc.contributor.authorZamprogna, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorDi Martino, Guido
dc.contributor.authorRibas, Juliana C.R. [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorda Costa, Mateus Paranhos [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorHalinen-Elemo, Katri
dc.contributor.authorVelarde, Antonio
dc.contributor.institutionIRTA
dc.contributor.institutionCECAV – Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro
dc.contributor.institutionIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionAnimal Welfare
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-11T17:07:17Z
dc.date.available2018-12-11T17:07:17Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-01
dc.description.abstractThe objective of the present study is to assess the variability of the measures used in the welfare quality (WQ) protocol for pigs among slaughterhouses in five different countries and to propose alarm and critical thresholds for the calculation of scores for future development of an animal welfare certification scheme. The WQ protocol was applied in 52,468 pigs in 42 slaughterhouses in 5 countries (Portugal, Italy, Finland, Brazil and Spain). The welfare assessment started in the unloading area, where measures of general fear, thermoregulation, slipping and falling, lameness, sickness and mortality were taken. Concerning lairage, space allowance, drinking points, thermoregulation and mortality were considered, and the human-animal relationship was assessed by means of high-pitched vocalisations when pigs were moved from lairage to the stunning system. Finally, stunning effectiveness, skin lesions and presence of pneumonia, pleurisy, pericarditis and white spots on the liver were assessed in the stunning area and after slaughtering the animals. There was a large degree of variability among slaughterhouses for measurements made. For instance, the percentage of animals slipping ranged from 0.4% to 57%. Pigs with signs of recovery after stunning ranged from 0% to 90% and the percentage of carcasses that were severely damaged with skin lesions ranged from 0% to 48%. The data obtained can be useful to establish some thresholds for future uses of the WQ protocol. Electric stunning was associated with more animals recovering consciousness than from CO2.en
dc.description.affiliationIRTA, Veïnat de Sies s/n, Monells
dc.description.affiliationVeterinary School CECAV – Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados
dc.description.affiliationIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell'Università 10
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Animal Science FCAV-UNESP
dc.description.affiliationAnimal Health ETT ra Animal Welfare, Huhtalantie 2
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartment of Animal Science FCAV-UNESP
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Commission
dc.description.sponsorshipIdEuropean Commission: FOOD-CT-2004–506508
dc.format.extent78-87
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2016.10.001
dc.identifier.citationLivestock Science, v. 193, p. 78-87.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.livsci.2016.10.001
dc.identifier.file2-s2.0-84992521906.pdf
dc.identifier.issn1871-1413
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84992521906
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/173690
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofLivestock Science
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,730
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAnimal welfare
dc.subjectAssessment protocol
dc.subjectBehaviour
dc.subjectHuman-animal relationship
dc.subjectPigs
dc.subjectSus scrofa
dc.titleApplication of the Welfare Quality® protocol in pig slaughterhouses of five countriesen
dc.typeArtigo
dspace.entity.typePublication
unesp.departmentZootecnia - FCAVpt

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