Change in physiological parameters of calves of various breeds under the transport and pre-slaughter stress

VLADIMIR IVANOVICH LEVAKHIN (All-Russian Research Institute of Beef Cattle, 9 Yanvarya street, 29, Orenburg 460000)
IVAN FIODOROVICH GORLOV (Volga Region Research Institute of Manufacture and Processing of Meat-and-Milk Production, Rokossovskogo Street, 6, Volgograd 400131-Volgograd State Technical University, Lenin Avenue, 28, Volgograd 400005)
ELEMES AZHMULDINOVICH AZHMULDINOV (All-Russian Research Institute of Beef Cattle, 9 Yanvarya street, 29, Orenburg 460000)
YURIY IVANOVICH LEVAKHIN (All-Russian Research Institute of Beef Cattle, 9 Yanvarya street, 29, Orenburg 460000)
GALIMZHAN KALIKHANOVICH DUSKAEV (All-Russian Research Institute of Beef Cattle, 9 Yanvarya street, 29, Orenburg 460000)
ELENA YURIEVNA ZLOBINA (Volga Region Research Institute of Manufacture and Processing of Meat-and-Milk Production, Rokossovskogo Street, 6, Volgograd 400131-Volgograd State University, University Prospect, 100, Volgograd 400062)
EKATERINA VLADIMIROVNA KARPENKO (Volgograd State University, University Prospect, 100, Volgograd 400062-Volga Region Research Institute of Manufacture and Processing of Meat-and-Milk Production, Rokossovskogo Street, 6, Volgograd 400131)

Nusantara Bioscience
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)

Levakhin VI, Gorlov IF, Azhmuldinov EA, Levakhin YI, Duskaev GK, Zlobina EY, Karpenko EV. 2017. Change in physiological parameters of calves of various breeds under the transport and pre-slaughter stress. Nusantara Bioscience 9: 1-5. The purpose of the research was to study the effect of the animal breed on the stress resistance of young cattle during the motor transportation. Six groups of animals were chosen for the experiment. The first group consisted of calves crossbred from dairy Black and White cows with Hereford bulls, the second – of calves crossbred from dairy cows of Bestuscheff breed with Hereford bulls, the third – of calves purebred of Simmental, the fourth – of calves purebred of Hereford, the fifth – of calves purebred of Aberdeen-Angus, and the sixth – of calves purebred of Limousine breed. The total length of transport was 180 km of highways and local roads. The route consisted of a 5-hour trip without a rest period. The greatest loss in the body weight was determined in the Limousine calves. The calves purebred of Hereford and Simmental breeds are more stress-resistant during the transporting and the pre-slaughter treatment.