Pengaruh Head Only Electrical Stunning Terhadap Aktivitas Superoxide Dismutase (Sod) Serum Sebagai Indikator Pre-Slaughter Stress Pada Babi Landrace
Daftar Isi:
- Stunning is a treatment that aims to stun the animals before slaughter. Stunning is done to minimize pain, fear and stress in the animal during the slaughter process. This aim of this study was to determine the difference of Landrace pigs’s superoxide dismutase (SOD) serum activity which treated with head only electrical stunning and non-stunning as a pre-slaughter stress indicator. SOD is a biomarker used to determine animal stress. The method of this research was post test only grup design. A total of eighteen barrow pigs were randomly divided into two groups, which treated with head only electrical stunning (P1) and nonstunning (P2), then their blood were kept in vacutainer plain for SOD analyzing by calorimetric assay. The data were analyzed with Shapiro-Wilk test and continued with Independent T test. The results of the Independent T test is in each treatment was significantly different (p<0.05) with p value p = 0,001 between head only electrical stunning (152,249 ± 25,166) and non-stunning (278,292 ± 87,606) group. From the result, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference that is Landrace pigs which treated with head only electrical stunning have lower SOD serum activity compared to non-stunning.