Estimating fun Animal Sacrifice

Assess performance, and the Age of Cattle Weights

Buying and selling of sacrificial animals in practice is mostly done by means assessed. Enough potential consumers view (check) by visually observing the performance of sacrificial animals and when deemed appropriate, transactions were so.

To get the manly ideal sacrificial animals, healthy, old enough and have the desired weight should be done through physical examination (antemortem) in detail. Similarly, to ensure accurate weight or age appropriate levels of livestock and livestock note cards animal life history (recording) is similar birth certificate.

However, expect all the above in animal traders in the street offering something that is almost impossible. Animal weighing quite heavy and expensive, usually owned by large corporate farms. While our farmers are not used to recording (recording) on his own cattle, so the age of cattle is difficult to know.

However, we do not need a pessimist. The technique used to estimate livestock carried by the broker and the researchers tested-tried out in fact gave results close to actual conditions of animals. By way of estimating, physical condition, body weight, and age of animal sacrifice can be immediately known as a condition of validity of worship offerings.

In essence, once we arrived at the location of the sale of sacrificial animals, we are faced with the estimating process, ie, see, observe and inspect the physical condition of the sacrificial animals are visually. To be more objective examination, the examiner should be about 1-2 feet from the object. Animals should be placed on the flat. When positioned at a higher location than the checker will impress greater. Conversely looked smaller when placed on the lower ground.

With visual observation alone, animal sacrifice can be seen from the aspect of health: healthy, sick or disabled. Healthy animals is characterized by the standard body shape (normal), eyes clear, mercurial temperament, appetite is good - try to provide forage - and bright color. Conversely symptoms of sick animals can be observed looking mucus on the eyes, nose, or anus; look in his eyes glazed; thin because of low appetite, and slow movements. This needs to be watched, because even though Indonesia declared free of disease mouth and nails (1986) and mad cow (2002), but have not been free of other zoonotic diseases are anthrax. Some areas still endemic diseases caused by bacteria this Bachillus anthracis.

For the animal sacrifice, the Prophet SAW forbade animals with disabilities. Horn broken, limp or foot drop ears can be seen visually. While animals with blind conditions can be tried with a wave of palms near his eyes, if not blink then ascertained blind and are not valid for sacrificial animals.

estimating the weight and age

When observed, the cross section resembles the body of cattle and sheep geometric shapes such as tubes. To find the volume of the tube must be known to the base area and height. In this case, the animal's chest circumference can be assumed as a wide base and the length of the body as high. Chest circumference was obtained by wrapping a rope behind Withers through the back of the shoulder blade. While body length measured from shoulder to two herniated discs sitting. By considering the volume of the organ's head, legs, tail, and the density of the meat or offal derived approach would be to obtain the actual weight of the animal.

Through various experiments, Schoorl found a formula to determine weight by simply knowing a single component, ie, chest circumference. The formula was named after his own name that is the formula Schoorl Body Weight (kg) = (chest circumference (cm) + 22) dikuadratkan divided by 100. While adopting the formula Scheiffer display tube with formula, namely, Body Weight (lubels) = (chest circumference (inches) squared x length) (inches) divided by 300. This formula is adjusted by Lambourne to convert into a unit that matches the life of our society, namely, Body Weight (kg) = (chest circumference (cm) squared x length (cm)) divided by 10 840.

Some researchers tried to prove the accuracy of the formulas were tested, tried out on several groups of cows between the weight and the weight crushes the scales. The result Scheiffer and Lambourne formula weight is closer to real beef with the actual error rate below 10 percent. While the formula Schoorl error rate reached 22.3 percent. The difference in the weight calculation is a reasonable living, because the weight of the animal is affected situations and environmental conditions, namely anxiety (stress), after eating, drinking or just waste a lot of feces. Animals are weighed though, due to bad treatment and transportation of the body can cause shrinkage of 50-10%.

With the estimated number of live weight gain, the percentage of carcasses and can be immediately known. Beef carcass weights ranged from 47-57 percent of his life and 75 per cent of the carcass meat. Carcasses are pieces of meat bones without head, feet, skin and viscera. For sheep, the percentage karkasnya around 45 per cent and 75 per cent of the carcass meat. This calculation is very important to be able to estimate the amount of meat compared to the number mustahik (recipient of the meat) as well as price comparisons can be made whether the animal sacrifices that are purchased are too expensive or not than the market price.

Another important capability is very important as estimating the condition of validity of estimating the age of sacrificial animals. Age of cattle can be detected based on the composition of dental teeth. Ask the seller to show the composition of incisors (located in the lower jaw). When the adult incisors have grown (looks big and strong like a hatchet, small teeth like a comb corn), then the animal is deemed mature / old enough (musinnah). In sheep and goats this change occurs at age 1 to 1.5 years and cows from 2 to 2.5 years.

The ability of this estimate will be better and more accurate results when frequently sharpened. For those who have advanced like a broker or a basket of animals, animal estimating activity enough judging from the car or motorcycle. At best they simply ran back to determine the fat or thin. Besides fun, the activities can also estimate the sacrificial animals selected convince us the perfect fit so that the principal provisions of sacrificial worship can double the reward us in His presence. (**)