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Manual of designs for the handling and slaughter of cattle, sheep and goats

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Title

Manual of designs for the handling and slaughter of cattle, sheep and goats,

Creator

Beere, Geoffrey C, AMAL Services Pty Ltd,, LiveCorp,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT,

Date

2018,

Description

his manual has been produced to support ongoing improvements in the management of Australian cattle, sheep and goats in export markets. It provides practical resources for use in ports, farms, feedlots and abattoirs. This includes design options for abattoirs that process both Australian and local cattle in parallel. The cattle, sheep and goat yard designs in this manual are suitable for both privately operated and public South-East Asian and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) abattoirs and slaughterhouses.,

Notes

Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,

Table of contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. How to view the manual's PDF designs in Adobe -- 4. Site selection -- 5. Construction materials -- 6. Abattoir lairage -- 7. Cattle and buffalo planning -- 8. Port infrastructure and equipment -- 9. Unloading ramps at feedlots and abattoirs -- 10. Feedlot designs -- 11. Abattoir/feedlot races and laneways -- 12. A cattle feedlot herringbone pen gate system -- 13. Cattle panel and gate -- 14. A Bud Box forcing pen -- 15. Cattle drafting systems -- 16. Entering the restraining box -- 17. Restraint head bail design for stunning boxes -- 18. Retrofitted head bail design for stunning boxes -- 19. Cattle water and feed troughs -- 20. Simultaneously processing ESCAS and non-ESCAS cattle -- 21. Cattle transport designs -- 22. Cattle pen density guides for transport, feedlot and lairage -- 23. Sheeps and goats -- 24. Building yards for sheep and goats -- 25. Sheep and goat yard panels -- 26. Sheep and goat drafting systems -- 27. Unloading and loading ramps at feedlot -- 28. Port infrastructure and equipment -- 29. Abattoir and feedlot raceways and laneways -- 30. Feedlot facilities -- 31. Design suggestions for Eid al-Adha -- 32. Entering the restraining box -- 33. Restraint applications -- 34. Lairage and race designs for simultaneously processing ESCAS and non-ESCAS sheep and goats -- 35. Sheep and goat vehicle designs -- 36. Pen density guides for transport, feedlot and lairage -- 37. General equipment and application for cattle, sheep and goats -- 38. Acknowledgements -- 39. Appendices,

Language

English,

Subject

Slaughtering and slaughter-houses, Livestock-Handling, Animal welfare, abattoirs, livestock,

Publisher name

Livecorp,

Place of publication

North Sydney (N.S.W.),

Format

120 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781740363112,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Livecorp,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/755317,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/767590