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TOOLS, EQUIPMENT

and
PROCEDURES IN
SLAUGHTERING GOAT
Lambanicio, Rustom
Rico, Emmanuel
Sumaoang, John Mark
Bernardino, Nikka
Lopez, Houdin
SLAUGHTERING TOOLS

•Relatively fewer tools are required


for the slaughter of small
ruminants, and some can be
made by local metal workshops
or blacksmiths.
Sticking Knife

A knife with a six-inch blade (15.2


cm) and a V-shape end used in
severing the blood vessels of the
neck to bleed the animal.
Skinning Knife
This knife is used for the removal of the
animal’s skin. Also with a six-inch blade and
characteristically curved backwards to allow
for ease of operation, it can be used to scrape
off burned hair from carcasses being dressed
with the skin-on.
Meat Saw

A replaceable blade
handsaw which is use in
sawing through bone.
Meat Chop
Also called “cleaver”, the
meat chop is a heavy axe
used for separating heavy
structures.
e.g. the head from the
neck or the shanks from the
leg
Spreader

A metal device for


suspending the animal
body and spreading out
the legs for dressing and
inspection.
Grinding and Honing Stones
Grinding stones are coarse
grained and used for the
initial sharpening of knives
into thin edges, then
finished with the honer
which is of fine-grain to
provide extra thinness.
Steel
A long, tapering rounded
and smooth metal rod on
which knives are
smoothened from time to
time to improve keenness.
Meat Tree/ Hooks
Metal device with bent or
curved ends for holding or
displaying parts of the
slaughtered meat and offal for
washing and inspection.
BASIC EQUIPMENT
Stunning Pen
A small or narrow enclosure
into which the animal is led
from lairage to be rendered
unconscious (in conventional
slaughter)after which it is
bled; also referred to as the
knocking pen.
The Hoist
A device for lifting up the
stunned animal for bleeding;
it can also be operated
manually, mechanically or
electrically.
Skinning Cradle

A metal or plastic rest with a


trestle arrangement onto
which the bled animal is
placed for skinning or
evisceration, often used if the
hoist system is unavailable
Collecting Trough
These are containers for
receiving blood or collecting
gut material and also
utilizable for disposing
non-carcass components
such as shanks and hoofs.
Offal Cleaning Tables

Often built into the offal


chamber wall, they may be of
concrete, galvanized metal or
stainless steel and provided with
high pressure water points for
cleaning offal.
Procedures in Slaughtering Goat

Stunning Sticking Dehairing Singeing

Flaying/ Remove
head and Evisceration
Skinning feet

Splitting/
Shrouding Chilling
Quartering
Stunning

Process of making animals


unconscious or insensible to pain
prior to bleeding.
Sticking

The severing or cutting of major


blood vessels leading to the
brain to cause death.
Dehairing

Process of removing the hair and


bristle of the goat or animals to
be slaughter.
Singeing

Application of flame to the


animals to be slaughter for the
purpose of burning the
unscrapped or unshaved hair
and killing some microorganism
at the surface.
Flaying

The act of removing the hide of


animals being slaughtered.
Remove Head and Feet

An act of removing the head


and feet of the goat.
Evisceration

The process of removing the


viscera or entrails.
Splitting

Cutting of the carcass into two


equal parts using the vertebral
column as a guide
Quartering
Cutting of the carcass into four
equal parts.
Shrouding
The wrapping of a chevon with
cheesecloth.
Chilling
Post-mortem from 40 degree
centigrade down to 0 degree
centigrade and keeping it cold will
give a shelf life of up to three weeks.
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