Publications by authors named "Muideen Ahmed"
Objective: The livestock handler attitude and their handling of animals is crucial for improving animal welfare standards, minimizing stress, improving productivity and meat quality. The present study was undertaken to assess the effect of training livestock handlers on behavioral, physiological, and hormonal responses during preslaughter handling in goats.
Methods: A total of 6 handlers were divided into trained (trained in basic animal handling practices, animal behavior, and animal welfare), contact trained (not trained directly but interacted and saw the working of trained handlers), and untrained groups (no formal training).
Halal and kosher slaughter have given the utmost importance to the sharpness of knives during the slaughter of animals. A sharp knife of appropriate dimension (blade length) makes slaughter less painful during neck severance and facilitates desirable bleeding. The role of knife sharpness has not been given due credit from an animal welfare perspective and is likely ignored by the people involved in slaughterhouses.
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- Recent research highlights the need to assess emotional stress in goats during slaughter, particularly focusing on the effects of witnessing the slaughter of other goats.
- The study involved 12 goats divided into two groups: one group observed the slaughter of their peers, while the other did not, with measurements taken of their brain activity and physiological responses.
- Findings showed that witnessing slaughter induced heightened emotional stress in the observing goats, resulting in significant changes in their brain wave patterns and increased blood glucose levels, indicating a physiological response to emotional empathy.
Meat analogs have opened a new horizon of opportunities for developing a sustainable alternative for meat and meat products. Proteins are an integral part of meat analogs and their functionalities have been extensively studied to mimic meat-like appearance and texture. Proteins have a vital role in imparting texture, nutritive value, and organoleptic attributes to meat analogs.
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- Stress causes physical and biochemical changes in animals, which can be measured through blood profiles, hormone levels, and physiological metrics like heart rate and body temperature to assess their stress levels.
- Variations in how stress is expressed among animals can depend on factors like genetics, previous experiences, and farming practices, leading to differences in stress biomarker readings.
- The paper discusses the importance of using meat proteomics to analyze muscle proteins as indicators of stress and meat quality, emphasizing the need for efficient, non-invasive methods to assess animal stress prior to slaughter.
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- Goats are treated similarly to other livestock before they are slaughtered, but this can cause them more stress because they behave differently.
- Factors like what they eat, their living conditions, and their health can increase their stress before slaughter, which can affect the quality of their meat.
- By understanding these stress factors and how to manage them, goat farmers can improve both the health of the goats and the quality of the meat they produce.
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- The study focuses on improving backcross breeding using marker-assisted techniques to enhance the recovery of the recurrent parent genome (RPGR), which helps eliminate undesired genetic traits while retaining beneficial ones.
- A specific cross was made between the Malaysian rice variety Putra-1, which is high-yield but susceptible to bacterial leaf blight (BLB), and the BLB-resistant variety IRBB60, utilizing various molecular markers for effective selection.
- The results showed a high RPGR percentage in the progenies, with several lines exhibiting resistance to BLB, leading to recommendations for these new lines as viable rice varieties for commercial farming.
The objective of this study was to determine the effects of dietary supplementation of Nigella sativa L. seeds, Rosmarinus officinalis L. leaves and their combination on rumen metabolism, nutrient intake and digestibility, growth performance, immune response and blood metabolites in Dorper lambs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of partial replacement of dietary protein by forages on rumen fermentation and microbiology in goats were examined. Four fistulated Boer bucks were used in a 4 × 4 Latin square design. The goats were fed 60% of urea-treated rice straw and 40% dietary treatment (Kleinhovia hospita (KH), Leucaena leucocephala (LL), mixture of K.
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