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The Effect of Routine Handling of Pigs on Behaviour and Subsequent Meat Quality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2017
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Many finishing pigs have little experience of handling, especially during the final management stage before slaughter. Earlier work (Weeding et al 1993) suggested that certain farms, producing pigs which were more difficult-to-handle than others, had a tendency towards dark, firm and dry meat (DFD). The effect of routine movement on behaviour during pre-slaughter handling and subsequent meat quality was evaluated using groups of finishing pigs.
Forty pens of pigs (17-19 pigs per pen) from two similar, fully-slatted finishing houses were involved. When pigs reached 16 weeks of age, pens were randomly allocated to treatment or control. Pigs in control pens were not moved before transport to the abattoir.
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