Table 28.

Average times (standard error in brackets) to different levels of loss of blood (% of the blood loss at 120 s post cut) in sheep after neck cutting (Anil et al., 2004)

Time (s) to:	Slaughter without stunning	Electrical stunning	Captive‐bolt stunning	Statistical significance of differences between groups
25% blood loss	5.7	6.7	6.4	Not significant
50% blood loss (s)	14.1	16.4	16.3	Not significant
75% blood loss (s)	31.8	30.8	27.0	Not significant
90% blood loss (s)	55.8	50.9	53.3	Not significant