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Missouri | Wow...those are ridiculously steep fines.
I cannot imagine being unable to use ears. When dealing with a seriously resisting animal, ears&tail are what I called "three point lift". It's very effective, and I've never seen an animal damaged by it.
It's a shame too. A broken leg ruins between very little, and no meat, and rules like that ensure the entire animal becomes waste.
I'm two years removed from the game now, but we were always able to load and ship belly ruptures (some as big as football/basketball size). They would dock the animal to the point that you got little to nothing for it, but you were allowed to ship it. I don't think it was a welfare issue, I think it had more to do with the packing plants are set up on an almost assembly line like process that requires animals of uniform shape and condition. Butchering a belly rupture requires one person taking time and giving that animal special handling, and things like that take the profit out of assembly line processes.
We usually just gave broken legs/ruptures away to local folks who would butcher it for themselves. If you're going to give the animal away anyhow, may as well give it to your neighbor as to the packing plant, especially since one wants it, where the other really doesn't. | |
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Pig/Piglet "Bouncing"
