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Behavioral, physiological, and hormonal responses during pre-slaughter handling in goats: a comparison between trained and untrained handlers

  • Pavan Kumar;Ahmed Abubakar Abubakar;Muideen Adewale Ahmed;Muhammad Nizam Hayat;Fakhrullah Abd Halim;Md. Moklesur Rahman;Mokrish Ajat;Ubedullah Kaka;Yong-Meng Goh;Awis Qurni Sazili
    • Animal Bioscience
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    • v.37 no.11
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    • pp.2000-2007
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    • 2024
  • Objective: The livestock handler attitude and their handling of animals is crucial for improving animal welfare standards, minimizing stress, improving productivity and meat quality. The present study was undertaken to assess the effect of training livestock handlers on behavioral, physiological, and hormonal responses during preslaughter handling in goats. Methods: A total of 6 handlers were divided into trained (trained in basic animal handling practices, animal behavior, and animal welfare), contact trained (not trained directly but interacted and saw the working of trained handlers), and untrained groups (no formal training). The handling experiment was conducted on 18 male goats by following a crossover design. The goats were moved from lairage to slaughter point by trained, contact-trained, and untrained handlers. Various behavioral, physiological, and hormonal parameters were recorded at the lairage before handling and at the slaughter point after handling the goats. Results: The training of livestock handlers had a significant effect on behavioral, physiological, and hormonal responses in goats. The goats handled by untrained and contact-trained handlers were recorded with intense vocalization, significant (p<0.05) increase in heart rate and blood glucose, and catecholamines (adrenaline and nor-adrenaline), thereby indicating stress and poor animal welfare. The trained handlers were observed to use visual interactions (waving of hands or objects, blocking, hand raising, etc), and lower stress responses were recorded in the goats handled by this group. Conclusion: The present study highlights the importance of training to livestock handlers in improving animal welfare and minimizing stress in goats during pre-slaughter stress.

A Study on the Development of the Design of Industrial Animal Biodegradation Handler for Environmentally Friendly Use

  • Kim, Gokmi
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.151-157
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    • 2021
  • Livestock farmers are using animal carcasses to dispose of the carcasses of livestock that have died of natural causes or disease. Most of the existing livestock carcass processors are mechanical in their structure without considering the environment. It has a function of sterilizing dead bodies at high pressure after processing them and causes environmental problems such as carbon monoxide emissions. If livestock carcasses occur, livestock farmers have to purchase their own livestock carcasses or entrust them to the outside world, which is costly. For this reason, the possibility of environmental pollution, infectious diseases, and spread has been increased recently by frequent dumping of dead bodies. The carcass of livestock mixed with manure not only serves as a medium for infectious diseases but also needsto be buried on a large scale as foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza spread. As a result, the possibility of environmental pollution, such as contamination of groundwater, is increasing, so research is needed to protect and improve the environment. We aim to improve the process of processing livestock carcasses and purify the agricultural environment through development results on the form, structure and function of eco-friendly livestock carcasses. Its shape is applied with naturalshapessuch asstones and seeds. The material used in the dead body processis a brown beggar biocouple and is applied with an eco-friendly industrial animal recycling process. As a result of the study, it is expected to improve odors and the environment, and to be used as data to improve and help the livestock industry in the future.

Puppy Socialization Class and Implication: Focusing on Kennel Club of US and UK (강아지 사회화 교육 및 시사점: 미국과 영국의 켄넬클럽에서 본 관점)

  • Yoo, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Su-Mi
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.413-419
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the puppy socialization class of American Kennel Club and Kennel Club of U.K., and to suggest the implications in Korea. First, puppy socialization class with owner enhance the owner-puppy bond and owner's responsibility. Second, it have to be composed of levels that owner and puppy can learn easily. Third, it need an environment which can access this program easily. Fourth, it is important a cooperation with veterinarians and handler. As a results, it shows to need to participate in puppy socialization class with owner and program considering Korea state should be developed. These results can be useful as basic data for making the correct companion animal culture of Korea.

A Development of Infant Education Content for Animal Study (동물모형 학습을 위한 유아교육 콘텐츠 개발)

  • Lee, Kwang-Hyoung;Kim, Jung-Jae
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.3510-3516
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    • 2010
  • In this paper to make young children to learn habits of the animals, crying, features, and English and Korean language, The system was developed to target the zoo various animals exist. If young child places a doll on the front of interesting animal, then young child can learn to look through the display connected to the model. The zoo is reducing the current appearance of the zoo, sensors that can recognize animals are attached to each cage. Attached to each sensor has a unique ID, If this approach recognizes a doll baby and will transmit a unique ID to the handler. Transmitted ID search the matched value sent from the database to retrieve the content and then the content is to be output through the output device. Also if the doll near the animal's room, young children find out animal sound and basic learning by multimedia effects. At the same time Korean, English, Mathematics are learned.

Radiation Exposure Dose of Handlers Using 18F-FDG in Small Animal Image Acquisition Experiments

  • Ik Soo Kim;Sun Young Yoon;Hwa Yeon Yeo
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.233-238
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    • 2023
  • This study was conducted to confirm the safety of the operator's radiation exposure in the micro PET-CT image acquisition experiment using the 18F-FDG. The usage of 18F-FDG and the exposure dose of handlers were measured at University B in Metropolitan City A, which uses 18F-FDG for micro PET-CT image acquisition. As a result of the measurement, the exposure dose is far below the effective dose limit of radiation workers, 50 mSv per year, and the equivalent dose limit of 500 mSv per year for hands, feet, and skin. has been measured Since these exposure doses can be further increased according to the number of times of use of 18F-FDG, it is judged that the exposure dose compared to the handling amount of 18F-FDG shown in this study can be used as reference data. In addition, as changed environments such as the use of materials other than unopened RI are occurring in education and research environments, such as the use of 18F-FDG at University B, radiation exposure with more interest in safety management by checking the factors of radiation exposure of the handler concerned We will always do our best to reduce it.

Studies on the Forage Production and Utilization on Paddy Field in Korea (한국에 있어서 답리작을 이용한 양질 조사료 생산기술)

  • Seo, Sung;Yook, W.B.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Grassland Science Conference
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    • 2002.09b
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    • pp.5-56
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    • 2002
  • The problems in the current domestic forage production were evaluated, and the prospective improvement was suggested in this paper. Grassland development in forest, production of high quality forages in upland and paddy land, efficient utilization of rice straw, development of new varieties of forages suitable for our environmental conditions and imported forages were described Among them, preferential production and utilization of forages using paddy field after rice harvest . should be enlarged for domestic supply of forages in Korea. Several studies were carried out to select the promising forage crops and barley cultivars for whole crop silage production, to determine productivity, nutritive value and production cost of forages produced in paddy field, and feeding effect of forages with Hanuwoo and milking cow for whole crop silage with forages produced in paddy field, 1999 to 2001, and also discussed restraint factors and activation plans for enlargement of forage production in paddy land. The promising forage crops in paddy field were rye and barley for Middle region, and rye, barley, early maturing Italian ryegrass and wheat for Southern region. The promising barley cultivars for whole crop silage in paddy field were Albori in Suwon, Keunalbori, Milyang 92, Saessalbori, and Naehanssalbori in Iksan, and Keunalbori, Albori, Naehanssalbori, and Saegangbori in Milyang, respectively. Silage production, quality and animal palatability of silage by trench and round bale were also compared. The production yields of whole crop barley silage(WBS) were 17,135kg as a fresh matter, and 6,011kg as a dry matter per ha, and the quality of WBS was 2∼3 grade, while that of rice straw silage was 4 grade as a farm basis. The production cost of WBS per kg was 83won as a fresh matter, and 238won as a dry matter. Feeding of WBS as forages on Hanwoo was very desirable for the improvement of live-weight gain, beef quality and farm income, particularly in growing stage of Hanwoo. Milk production and income were also increased, and feed cost was decreased by feeding of WBS. The daily voluntary intake of WBS in milking cow was 26.3kg as a fresh matter(DM 7.7kg) per head. Milk production when WBS was fed, was very similar to that of imported hay feeding such as Kentucky bluegrass or domestic corn silage. The issues to be solved in near future f3r stable forage production and supply in paddy land are sustainable livestock-forages policy, development & seed production of new varieties of barley, rye, Italian ryegrass and other promising forages, efficient demand & supply system of forages, solidification for mass production and utilization of forages, efficient application management of animal slurry on paddy field considering environmental agriculture/livestock industry, and break k development of bottleneck technique in production field. Domestic production & supply of high cost agricultural machine (round baler, wrapper, handler and so on), plastic wrapping film, and silage additives are also important.

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