A method of reducing stress level in animals
AssigneeMarel Meat A/S
InventorsLeif LYKKE, Steen Hegnsgaard WEIHE
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Abstract
A method of reducing stress level in animals such as pigs may include: sealable enclosing the animals in at least one chamber; exposing the animals to a gas mixture comprising oxygen and at least one type of physiologically inert gas; gradually decreasing the oxygen concentration from a maximum level, to a minimum level; gradually increasing the at least one physiologically inert gas concentration from a minimum level to a maximum level; wherein the minimum level of the oxygen concentration is higher than the anaesthetic causing concentration for the animals.
Claims12
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A method of reducing stress level in animals such as pigs, the method comprising:
- sealable enclosing the animals in at least one chamber,
- exposing the animals to a gas mixture comprising oxygen and at least one type of physiologically inert gas,
- gradually decreasing the oxygen concentration from a maximum level to a minimum level,
- gradually increasing the at least one physiologically inert gas concentration from a minimum level to a maximum level,
- wherein the minimum level of the oxygen concentration is higher than the anesthetic causing concentration for the animals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.