Técnicas operacionais e bem estar animal: influência na condenação de carcaças de aves

Abstract

The increasing chicken meat production and consumption demand market responsive to the needs of the population, but without neglecting the legal and health issues, more recently, those about animal welfare. All post-mortem biochemical reactions are decisive for meat quality and are closely grounded in pre-slaughter management in any of its stages: gathering, fasting, transport, time out, hanging, restraint and animal stunning. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the importance of animal welfare in pre-slaughter management as a determining factor for reducing economic losses due to condemnation of broilers carcasses in the industry. In this study it was evaluated, compared, rates gicose serum in times of harvesting and bleeding and the frequency of occurrence of health changes, important aspects of pre-slaughter and slaughter and the economic impact of losses during slaughter between June 2011 and May 2012 in a slaughterhouse under State Inspection in Bahia. A significant association being glucose and the presence or absence of animal welfare and also between training for animal welfare and the presence or absence of injury, characterizing it as a protective factor for the absence of injuries. The amount lost in carcasses during the study period was R $ 494,015.18 and the most prevalent causes were bruises / fractures about the partial condemnations and excessive scalding of the total condemnations.