VMD 511: Animal Welfare, Ethics and Jurisprudence (2+0)

SWINE

• Place the carcass on its back on the table (supine position).
• Incisions are made to drop the limbs horizontally.
• Remove a strip of the ventral body wall from chin to the pubis regions.
• At sternal incisions passing through the costal cartilages.
• The anterior end of the sternal is raised with the left hand so that the heart in not cut.
• Ventral abdominal wall in incised and left to the pubis.
• Thoracic cavity by breaking ribs.
• Thoracic organs removed.
• First remove the spleen and omentum.
• Push the intestines left side inorder to examine rectum.
• Cut the oesophagus posterior to diaphragm.
• Liver, stomach and intestines removed together.
• Remove adrenal glands before kidneys.
• Kidney by tearing its peritoneal covering.
• Seminal vesicles and other accessory organs in boar.