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Fill level of the Hunger Pit

All right

Figure 40: Uncollapsed sinkhole
(© F. Reinecke, RP-Gießen)
Indicators
  • The skin covering the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae bulges outwards
  • the iliac crest is faintly visible
  • the transition from the flank to the last rib is only slightly sunken or is at least visible
  • The hunger pit is not sunken!

Needs reassurance

Figure 41: Deeply sunken hunger pit
(© F. Reinecke, RP-Gießen)
Figure 42: Deeply sunken hunger pit
(© F. Reinecke, RP-Gießen)
Figure 43: Distended crop
(© L. Trzebiatowski, Animal Welfare Network, JLU)
Figure 44: Triangular hunger pit
(©T. Scheu, LVA Hofgut Neumühle)
Indicators
  • The hunger pit is deeply sunken and appears rectangular
  • Hunger pit is triangular
  • Behind the last rib, the hunger pit is sunken by a hand’s breadth or even deeper 
  • The hunger pit is distended

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