The study was conducted in the slaughterhouse of Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru, between January and October 2017, with the aim to determine the correlation between the behavioral indicators of animal welfare during the slaughter and the physicochemical properties of the beef. Ninety-nine bovines were classified by sex, age and breed group. The slaughter stages (conduction, subjection, shoot down and bleeding) were related with the behavioral indicators of animal welfare (blows, tail twists, operator shouts, slips, falls, vocalizations, attempts to incorporate, punctures to pull down, total punctures, times of each stage and time between pull down and bleeding). The physicochemical properties in the Longissimus dorsi muscle between the fifth and seventh ribs were evaluated. The results indicated that shoot down was the most critical stage of the slaughter due to the greater occurrence of in...

The study was conducted in the slaughterhouse of Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru, between January and October 2017, with the aim to determine the correlation between the behavioral indicators of animal welfare during the slaughter and the physicochemical properties of the beef. Ninety-nine bovines were classified by sex, age and breed group. The slaughter stages (conduction, subjection, shoot down and bleeding) were related with the behavioral indicators of animal welfare (blows, tail twists, operator shouts, slips, falls, vocalizations, attempts to incorporate, punctures to pull down, total punctures, times of each stage and time between pull down and bleeding). The physicochemical properties in the Longissimus dorsi muscle between the fifth and seventh ribs were evaluated. The results indicated that shoot down was the most critical stage of the slaughter due to the greater occurrence of in...