싸움소의 증례를 통한 동물복지형 헤드기어의 개발 (Development of animal welfare type headgear in the case of fighting bulls)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국동물위생학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국동물위생학회지 / 38권 / 4호 / 253 ~ 257페이지
· 저자명 : 김택석, 김충희

초록

Bull-boxing in South Korea is a form of competitions in which bulls measure their strength with each other in the form of pushing by putting their heads together. Bull-boxing has been admitted after being designated as a play culture by the government because it does not cause great injuries to animals’ bod-ies and has strong positive aspects such as contributing to livestock farmers’ leisure activities, encour-agement of animal husbandry, and communities’ economic development. However, bull-boxing some-times causes damage to the head and horns due to the heavy bodies. According to the results of exami-nations of these damage cases, damage that caused irregular shapes of the base of horns was identified in 31.5% of fighting bulls. The damage to horns is thought to have been caused by the great forces of fighting bulls repeatedly imposed to each other’s horns during bull-boxing that caused minute frac-tures leading to damage to the blood vessels inside the horns resulting in the blocking of delivery of nutrients to the horns causing the deformation of the horns into abnormal shapes. Since bulls’ bodies are injured during bull-boxing although the injuries are small as bull-boxing is mainly conducted by pushing, animal protection groups regard bull-boxing as cruelty to animals and request to stop bull-boxing. The present study aims to develop animal welfare type headgears that can protect bulls’ horns and heads in order to protect fighting bulls during bull-boxing in terms of animal protection and welfare.

영어초록

Bull-boxing in South Korea is a form of competitions in which bulls measure their strength with each other in the form of pushing by putting their heads together. Bull-boxing has been admitted after being designated as a play culture by the government because it does not cause great injuries to animals’ bod-ies and has strong positive aspects such as contributing to livestock farmers’ leisure activities, encour-agement of animal husbandry, and communities’ economic development. However, bull-boxing some-times causes damage to the head and horns due to the heavy bodies. According to the results of exami-nations of these damage cases, damage that caused irregular shapes of the base of horns was identified in 31.5% of fighting bulls. The damage to horns is thought to have been caused by the great forces of fighting bulls repeatedly imposed to each other’s horns during bull-boxing that caused minute frac-tures leading to damage to the blood vessels inside the horns resulting in the blocking of delivery of nutrients to the horns causing the deformation of the horns into abnormal shapes. Since bulls’ bodies are injured during bull-boxing although the injuries are small as bull-boxing is mainly conducted by pushing, animal protection groups regard bull-boxing as cruelty to animals and request to stop bull-boxing. The present study aims to develop animal welfare type headgears that can protect bulls’ horns and heads in order to protect fighting bulls during bull-boxing in terms of animal protection and welfare.

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