Effects of Slaughter Date, On-Farm Handling, Transport Stocking Density, and Time in Lairage on Digestive Tract Temperature, Serum Cortisol Concentrations, and Pork Lean Quality of Market Hogs

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 208-218

  Carr, C C ^a,b   Newman, D J ^a,c   Rentfrow, G K ^a,d   Keisler, D H ^a   Berg, E P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antemortem stress; Cortisol; Digestive tract temperature; Pork quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955016152     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/S1080-7446(15)30842-1     Document Type: Article

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