Sticking

STICKING
  • The animal is elevated off the floor on a box or sheep cradle.
  • In modern abattoirs, sheep are dressed on the rail.
  • Sheep is held with back towards the sticker and head to the left.
  • The neck is stretched with the left hand and with the knife in the right hand both the carotid arteries and jugular vein are to be cut.
  • Then pierced through the pelt at the base of the ear or at the angle formed by the jawbone and the neck vertebrae and then is cut out.
  • Bleeding out is allowed completely.
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