Jogeephus":25ptr3cf said:
I wonder how the big kill plants deal with this. Do you think they just deal with it and eat the loss or do you think they have some way of resorting them for a period of time? I imagine they run into quite a few.
I would think that they just deal with it. As mentioned previously, it really takes a high level of perceived "crisis" to activate this response.
Given the herd mentality of cattle, I am thinking maybe that they adapt their level of agitation to that of other cattle in their environment (one reason why one idiot in a corral can upset the whole works ~ animals of prey are more likely to attend to and respond to an idiot, thinking that
that animal is aware of a threat that they themselves have not yet identified, and go with the idiots reaction as a "just in case ..". It is a survival skill. Think of zebra's in a herd, very few (maybe just one) animal/s see the lion, yet the whole herd runs ----> "Why are we running?" "I don't know.....cause Joe and Curly started running....").
So in a slaughter house, while these high strung animals may remain "hyper alert" and "aware" ~ more so than the others (as in the case of maybe mwj's cow), they do not typically remain in a state of crisis. An adrenaline rush is not something that can be
maintained, it serves an immediate purpose for an immediate circumstance. So yes, it happens, but not near as commonly as one might think, not so often that I would imagine that slaughter houses make allowances.
Maybe more than you wanted there....