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The Use of a Non-Penetrating Captive Bolt for the Euthanasia of Neonate Piglets.
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- Assessment of ante mortem welfare indicators and the pathophysiology of captive-bolt trauma in equids at slaughter.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- History and best practices of captive bolt euthanasia for swine.Translational animal science · 2022Article
- Welfare of sheep and goats at slaughter.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2021Article
- Perspectives for Buck Kids in Dairy Goat Farming.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Review
- A Systematic Literature Review on Depopulation Methods for Swine.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
- Humane Euthanasia of Guinea Pigs (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Evaluation of physical euthanasia for neonatal piglets on-farm.Journal of animal science · 2020Article
- Welfare of pigs during killing for purposes other than slaughter.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2020Article
- Welfare of pigs at slaughter.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2020Article
- An Examination of the Performance of Blank Cartridges Used in Captive Bolt Devices for the Pre-Slaughter Stunning and Euthanasia of Animals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Prioritization of Farm Animal Welfare Issues Using Expert Consensus.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019Article
- The Use of a Mechanical Non-Penetrating Captive Bolt Device for the Euthanasia of Neonate Lambs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2018Article
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Abstract
The most common method for the on-farm euthanasia of neonate piglets is reported to be manual blunt force trauma. This paper presents the results of research to evaluate a mechanical non-penetrating captive bolt (the Accles and Shelvoke CASH small animal tool, Birmingham, UK) to produce an immediate stun/kill with neonate piglets. One hundred and forty-seven piglets (average dead weight = 1.20 kg ± 0.58 (standard deviation, SD), mean age = 5.8 days (median = 3)) were euthanized with the device and demonstrated immediate loss of consciousness, subjectively assessed by behavioural signs and no recovery. The result that 147 out of 147 animals were effectively stun/killed gives a 95% confidence interval for the true percentage of animals that would be effectively stun/killed of 97.5-100% with the use of the CASH small animal tool under the conditions of the current study. This research concludes that the CASH small animal tool, using a 1 grain brown coded cartridge, is suitable for producing a stun/kill in neonate piglets when applied in a frontal/parietal position.
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