Report on restraining and neck cutting or stunning and neck cutting in pink veal calves

B. Lambooij, J.T.N. van der Werf, H.G.M. Reimert, V.A. Hindle

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Abstract

Neural and physiological assessment of welfare during restraining and rotation, after neck cutting, neck cutting followed by captive bolt stunning and electrical stunning followed by neck cutting in pink veal calves.
Original languageDutch
Place of PublicationLelystad
PublisherWageningen UR Livestock Research
Number of pages17
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameReport / Wageningen UR Livestock Research
PublisherWageningen UR Livestock Research
No.398
ISSN (Print)1570-8616

Keywords

  • cattle husbandry
  • veal calves
  • animal welfare
  • slaughter
  • stunning
  • electronarcosis
  • cardiac rhythm
  • brain

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