In addition to meat, slaughtered cattle yield hides from which various types of leather are made. Other by-products are made into meat-and-bone, bone, and blood meal; endocrine preparations; stearin; glue; and soap. Bulls and oxen of some breeds are also used as draft animals. Cattle are...
HEPATIC DICROCOELIASIS IN BEEF CATTLE SLAUGHTERED AT ABU-SIMBEL ABATTOIR: FIRST SLAUGHTER HOUSE RECORD IN EGYPTM., MOHAMED HESHAMYOUSSEF, MOHAMED SALAH EL-DEINABD-ELGHAFFAR, SARY KHALEELABD-ELRAHMAN, SALWA MAHMOUDAssiut Veterinary Medical Journal...
A cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2007 to November 2008 to estimate the prevalence of hydatidosis in slaughtered cattle from two abattoirs in Mongu, Western Province, Zambia, using prospective and retrospective data. Out of the 4061 cattle examined during postmortem inspection, 84 (...
Sir, – Your article on Irish cattle exported to Turkey calls out for immediate action ("Irish cattle slaughtered in conditions 'breaching EU law'", April 1st). The graphic images that I have already seen are shocking and include cattle from Ireland being unloaded in Turkey and the Middle Ea...
In the UK, like in many high income countries, a test and slaughter strategy is being employed that is based on the Single Intradermal Comparative Cervical Tuberculin (SICCT) test, with an interferon-gamma release assay sometimes applied as an ancillary test to maximise the detection of infected...
In this study, all animals were healthy and received the same diet until they were slaughtered in adulthood (24 months). The experimental animals were divided into two groups: growth retardation cattle (GRC; the average body height was 95 cm, and the average live weight before slaughter was ...
The study design was a retrospective observational case-control study. The study population was animals slaughtered as part of bTB herd breakdowns (where bTB has been detected in the herd via one or more positive statutory tests) in Northern Ireland. Cases were exposed animals with bTB visible le...
The 10 bulls in each of the R1 and A1 treatment groups were slaughtered at the end of the 125 day ‘Period 1’. At the end of the 55 day ‘Period 2’ all animals in the remaining two treatment groups; R2 and A2 were slaughtered. At both slaughter time-points, the slaughter order ...
Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) facilitates the transport of retinol in the body but is also an adipokine and fatty acid transporter. Our study was aimed at investigating the associations between RBP4 abundance and fat deposition in cattle. Blood sample
A random effect meta-analysis was performed to estimate the worldwide pooled bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) prevalences of persistently infected (PI), viraemic (VI) and antibody-positive (AB) animals and herds. The meta-analysis covered 325 studies