Abstract
The transport distance have a significant impact on the levels of stress burden on animals before slaughter and have an impact on veterinary decision-making about meat edibility and also on the quality of slaughtered animal meat. The objective of the study was to determine live weight, dress weight and body weight loss during transportation of different sex group of pigs into the Slaughtering house. The body weight loss during preslaughter treatment of animals was recorded and carcass value traits were assessed in details. Relationship between pig live weight and dress weight was reported as dress weight = 1.06 + 0. 73 live weight. There were significant effect of sex and transport distance on live weight at slaughter, carcass weights and dressing percentage (p<0.01). Pigs given the short transport (4 Km) lost 23.01 % and pigs given the long transport (90 Km) 29.37% of their initial live weight. Overall, dressing percentage was negatively correlated with the percentage loss of live weight in transport (P<0.01). As conclusion, long transportation of the pigs is a great stress factor and has adverse effects on the live weight of the pigs.
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