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Livestock slaughtered

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Full name of indicator:	Livestock slaughtered
Code:	5660
Topic:	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries
Validity:	01.01.2000 - 09.09.9999
Definition:	"Number of slaughtered animals" is the number of carcasses of animals whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption. "Live weight" is the live weight of slaughtered animals before their slaughter, expressed as the empty body weight. "Carcass weight" is the cold weight after slaughter and dressing of slaughtered animals whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption. (The cold weight can be obtained by subtracting 2% from the weight recorded warm 60 minutes for cattle or 45 minutes for pigs, at the latest, after the animal is bled – included in the definition during the period 2009-2024). "Carcass" means: - for bovine animals, the whole body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning, presented without the head (separated from the carcass at the atlanto-occipital joint); without the feet (severed at the carpometacarpal or tarsometatarsal joints); without the organs contained in the thoracic and abdominal cavities with or without the kidneys, the kidney fat and the pelvic fat; and without the sexual organs and the attached muscles and without the udder or the mammary fat; - for pigs, the body of a slaughtered pig, bled and eviscerated, whole or divided down the mid-line, presented without tongue, bristles, hooves, sexual organs, flare fat, kidneys and diaphragm; - for sheep and goats, the whole body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning, presented without the head (separated at the atlanto-occipital joint); without the feet (severed at the carpometacarpal or tarsometatarsal joints); without the tail (severed between the sixth and seventh caudal vertebrae); without the udder and sexual organs; with the kidneys and kidney fat; and without the other organs contained in the thoracic and abdominal cavities; - for equidae, the body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning, without the head, the tail, the udder and parts of limbs; kidneys and kidney fat are part of the carcass; the pelvic fat is not included; - for poultry and ostriches, the animal plucked and drawn, without head and feet and without neck, heart, liver and gizzard. (The carcass of poultry known as ‘65 % chicken’, or otherwise presented - included in the definition until 2024).
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Time characteristic:	Flows
Data type:	numeric
Group:	-

List of related indicators:

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• Livestock slaughtered - Cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses

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Displayed on: 22.11.2024