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A survey to investigate potential dehydration in slaughtered broiler chickens
- Source :
- The British veterinary journal. 152(3)
- Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- Summary A survey of 800 broilers arriving at two commercial slaughterhouses with a combined annual throughput of 40 million birds was carried out. Each plant was visited on four occasions throughout summer and winter and blood samples were collected from 100 broilers at exsanguination throughout the day of each visit. In all, the survey covered 16 lorry loads of broilers delivered to one plant and 20 loads delivered to the other. The blood collected was analysed for packed cell volume (PCV), plasma creatine kinase, total protein, sodium, glucose, osmolality and corticosterone. Based on the measures of PCV, plasma total protein, sodium and osmolality there was no evidence of dehydration amongst the lorry loads of birds delivered to the plants. There were differences between the two plants in the levels of all of the blood variables that were measured, except for those of plasma corticosterone.
- Subjects :
- Veterinary medicine
Time Factors
General Veterinary
biology
Dehydration
Data Collection
Cell volume
Broiler
food and beverages
Transportation
chemistry.chemical_compound
Animal science
chemistry
Corticosterone
biology.protein
Animals
Creatine kinase
Plasma corticosterone
Chickens
Abattoirs
Total protein
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00071935
- Volume :
- 152
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The British veterinary journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....656ce06302807177bc146c5d633cee7b