Fit for transport: how are travel conditions impacting the state of sows at slaughter?
The responsibility for the state of a pig when it reaches slaughter is shared by both the farmer and the driver, but could transportation conditions be having a bigger impact on pig health than current legislation acknowledges?References | ||||
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(2018) | Transportation of cull sows-a descriptive study of the clinical condition of cull sows before transportation to slaughter.. Translational Animal Science | 2(3):280-289 | ||
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(2017) | Housing of cull sows in the hours before transport to the abattoir—An initial description of sow behaviour while waiting in a transfer vehicle.. Animals | 7(1):1 | ||
Thodberg, K., Fogsgaard, K.K. and Herskin, M.S. | ||||
(2019) | Transportation of Cull Sows—Deterioration of Clinical Condition From Departure and Until Arrival at the Slaughter Plant.. Frontiers in Veterinary Science | 6 |