Breathing Without Pause
The best way to measure respiratory rate is to view the animal from behind at an angle and count the number of times the abdominal wall rises and falls. The normal rate is 30 to 45 breaths per minute for calves, 24 to 36 for adult cattle, 15 to 30 for sheep and goats, 10 to 40 for chickens, and 12 to 20 for pigs. A distinction is made between tachypnea (increased respiratory rate), bradypnea (decreased respiratory rate), dyspnea (disturbance of respiration in frequency, depth, and volume), and apnea (cessation of breathing).
They hold their breath
Can numbers be assigned more than once?
Sky of numbers
Do we already have a term for this killing?
History has not yet told of them
Without being heard
Our will is done
Captions
- 1 Breathing cow
- 2 Freshly delivered cowhide in a tannery
- 3 Pig marked for slaughter, hanging
- 4 Sleeping cow on a sanctuary farm
- 5 Flame-singed pig
- 6 11,000 ear tags from one day of pig slaughter
- 7 Livestock transporter
- 8 Chimneys above the pig slaughterhouse of a large slaughtering company
- 9 Calf in a cadaver-rendering plant
- 10 Chrome-tanned cow hides
- 11 Musk ducks in a poultry fattening farm
- 12 A herd of sheep on a sanctuary farm
- 13 Feathers left behind on a poultry transporter
- 14 A live goose suspended for slaughter
- 15 Breathing cow
The publication ›Breathing Without Pause‹ was published by Kehrer Verlag.