FERRER, DENNIS L

BSAH 4 RUMINANT

Laboratory Exercise No. 1 Slaughtering of Farm Animals

Introduction:

Slaughter is the process for killing of animals intended for human consumption. The term slaughter is
also used to depict killing of animals by bleeding. Most farm animals are killed by bleeding.

animals would be killed for food; however, they Might also be slaughtered for other reasons such as
being diseased and unsuitable for consumption. The slaughter involves some initial cutting, opening the
major body cavities to remove the entrails and offal but usually leaving the carcass in one piece.

Objectives

1. To be able to know something about meat inspection

2. To be able to evaluate the slaughterhouse in our municipality

3. To be able to witness the slaughtering process of swine and cattle

4. To be able to see the process of meat inspection during the ante-mortem and post mortem
inspection.

Methodology

A visit to the slaughterhouse of every municipality to observe and record every step being made during
the slaughtering process. Take a picture of every event or things that you are going to evaluate like
conduct of meat inspection, picture of the slaughtering process in swine and cattle. Picture of the
slaughtering house the equipments and materials used and picture of the meat moinspector and you,
also the meat van or vehicle being use during the transfer of meat from the slaughterhouse to the
market for sale of meat.

Questions to Answer
1.

A. Name of the meat inspector: Eulysis Dumalig

B. Course: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

C. Years in the service:

2.

Picture inside the Slaughterhouse

Slaughtering Process

Swine.

Step 1. they hit the forehead of the pig by using a steel pipe

Step 2. They bleed the pig in the neck

Step 3. They put it in a hot water and they do scalding

Step 4. They remove the insides of the pig and they clean it

Step 5. They hang the pig

Cattle

Step 1. They tied up the cattle

Step 2. They stab the cattle in the nape

Step 3. they wounded it around the neck and it looks like they made a blood patch using cattle skin

Step 4. They stab it and make it bleed and they get the blood

Step 5. They remove the skin of the cattle and choped the parts of the cattle

Meat transport to market is there any vehicle used?

Yes there is vehicle that they are using and it is a modified tricycle that has a cage in it