A High Dietary Incorporation Level of Chlorella Vulgaris Improves the Nutritional Value of Pork Fat Without Impairing the Performance of Finishing Pigs

The influence of a high inclusion level of Chlorella vulgaris, individually and supplemented with two carbohydrase mixtures, in finishing pig diets was assessed on zootechnical performance, carcass characteristics, pork quality traits and nutritional value of pork fat. Forty crossbred entire male pigs, sons of Large White × Landrace sows crossed with Pietrain boars, with an initial live weight of 59.1 ± 5.69 kg were used in this trial. Swines were randomly assigned to one of four dietary treatments (n=10): cereal and soybean meal-based diet (control), control diet with 5% C. vulgaris (CV), CV diet supplemented with 0.005% Rovabio® Excel AP (CV+R) and CV diet supplemented with 0.01% of a four-CAZyme mixture (CV+M). Animals were slaughtered, after the finishing period, with a BW of 101 ± 1.9 kg. Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits were not influenced (p > 0.05) by the incorporation of C. vulgaris in the diets. However, the inclusion of the microalga in finishing pig diets increased some lipid-soluble antioxidant pigments and n-3 PUFA, and decreased the n-6:n-3 ratio of fatty acids, thus ameliorating the nutritional value of pork fat. Moreover, the supplementation of diets with the carbohydrase mixtures did not change (p > 0.05) neither animal performance nor meat quality traits, indicating their inefficacy in the increase of digestive utilization of C. vulgaris by pigs under these experimental conditions. It is concluded that the use of C. vulgaris in finishing pig diets, at this high incorporation level, improves the nutritional value of pork fat without compromising pig performance.

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A High Dietary Incorporation Level of Chlorella vulgaris Improves the Nutritional Value of Pork Fat without Impairing the Performance of Finishing Pigs

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani10122384 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 2384

Author(s):

Diogo Coelho ◽

José Pestana ◽

João M. Almeida ◽

Cristina M. Alfaia ◽

Carlos M. G. A. Fontes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Meat Quality ◽

Chlorella Vulgaris ◽

Nutritional Value ◽

Control Diet ◽

Carcass Characteristics ◽

Live Weight ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Meat Quality Traits ◽

Finishing Pig ◽

Pork Fat

The influence of a high inclusion level of Chlorella vulgaris, individually and supplemented with two carbohydrase mixtures, in finishing pig diets was assessed on zootechnical performance, carcass characteristics, pork quality traits and nutritional value of pork fat. Forty crossbred entire male pigs, sons of Large White × Landrace sows crossed with Pietrain boars, with an initial live weight of 59.1 ± 5.69 kg were used in this trial. Swines were randomly assigned to one of four dietary treatments (n = 10): cereal and soybean meal-based diet (control), control diet with 5% C. vulgaris (CV), CV diet supplemented with 0.005% Rovabio® Excel AP (CV + R) and CV diet supplemented with 0.01% of a four-CAZyme mixture (CV + M). Animals were slaughtered, after the finishing period, with a BW of 101 ± 1.9 kg. Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits were not influenced (p > 0.05) by the incorporation of C. vulgaris in the diets. However, the inclusion of the microalga in finishing pig diets increased some lipid-soluble antioxidant pigments and n-3 PUFA, and decreased the n-6:n-3 ratio of fatty acids, thus ameliorating the nutritional value of pork fat. Moreover, the supplementation of diets with the carbohydrase mixtures did not change (p > 0.05) neither animal performance nor meat quality traits, indicating their inefficacy in the increase of digestive utilization of C. vulgaris by pigs under these experimental conditions. It is concluded that the use of C. vulgaris in finishing pig diets, at this high incorporation level, improves the nutritional value of pork fat without compromising pig performance.

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41 Estimating the heritability of meat quality traits in turkeys

Journal of Animal Science ◽

10.1093/jas/skaa278.035 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 98 (Supplement_4) ◽

pp. 18-19

Author(s):

Ryley J Vanderhout ◽

Michelle Yahiro ◽

Benjamin Wood ◽

Shai Barbut ◽

Jeff S Mohr ◽

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Keyword(s):

Meat Quality ◽

Shear Force ◽

Live Weight ◽

Drip Loss ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Breast Meat ◽

Meat Yield ◽

Meat Quality Traits ◽

White Striping ◽

Breast Meat Yield

Abstract Genetic selection for improved meat quality traits has been successfully implemented in many livestock species. The objective of this study was to estimate the heritability of several meat quality traits to assess their selection potential in turkeys. Pedigree toms (n = 1,033) were processed at a commercial facility and live weight, breast meat yield (as a percentage of live weight), ultimate pH, color (CIELAB values), drip loss, cooking loss, and shear force were recorded on M. pectoralis superficialis (fillet). White striping was also rated on a 1–4 scale. Heritabilities were estimated using univariate animal models in ASReml version 4.1. Hatch week and age at slaughter were included as fixed effects in the mode,l and 32 generations of pedigree records were used. Breast meat yield (h2 = 0.62; SE = 0.090) showed the highest heritability and was higher compared to previous estimates, probably due to the smaller sample size. Live weight (h2 = 0.31; SE = 0.078), ultimate pH (h2 = 0.36; SE = 0.087), lightness (h2 = 0.28; SE = 0.086), redness (h2 = 0.22; SE = 0.075), and white striping score (h2 = 0.27; SE = 0.085) all had moderate heritabilities. The estimate for ultimate pH was similar to previous studies in broilers but was high compared to previous studies in turkeys. Estimates for color were similar to those found in previous studies involving turkeys. Drip loss and cooking loss had similar heritability estimates of 0.13 (SE = 0.071) and 0.10 (SE = 0.064), respectively, which were akin to previous estimates in pork. Shear force (h2 = 0.02; SE = 0.056) was found to have a very low heritability. In conclusion, the heritability estimates provided in this study show great potential for the inclusion of meat quality traits in selection programs of turkeys. This study is part of a larger project working towards the implementation of genomic information in the selection of turkeys for improved meat quality.

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The Influence of Supplemental Multi-enzyme Feed Additive on the Performance, Carcass Characteristics and Meat Quality Traits of Broiler Chickens

International Journal of Poultry Science ◽

10.3923/ijps.2010.126.133 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 126-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Hana A.H. Zakaria ◽

Mohammad A.R. Jalal ◽

Majdi A. Abu Ishmai

Keyword(s):

Meat Quality ◽

Broiler Chickens ◽

Carcass Characteristics ◽

Feed Additive ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Meat Quality Traits

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Effects of concentrates rich in by-products on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits of light lambs

Animal Production Science ◽

10.1071/an17798 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 593 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. Avilés Ramírez ◽

F. Peña Blanco ◽

A. Horcada Ibáñez ◽

N. Núñez Sánchez ◽

F. Requena Domenech ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Growth Performance ◽

Meat Quality ◽

Soybean Meal ◽

Carcass Characteristics ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Meat Quality Traits ◽

Alternative Ingredients ◽

Camelina Meal ◽

Feedlot Lambs ◽

By Products

The effects of feeding concentrates with alternative ingredients to cereal and soybean meal on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits of feedlot lambs were studied. A total of 105 non-castrated male lambs were randomly assigned to one of three treatments (5 replicates per treatment): Control (CON, similar to commercial concentrates), Camelina (CAM, where camelina meal replaced 50% of the crude protein from the soybean meal in the CON concentrate), and Fibrous (FIB, concentrate without cereals and soybean meal, with camelina meal in addition to several by-products, and 20% less energy). The CAM treatment performed as well as the CON one. The FIB treatment increased feed conversion rate and tended to improve the redness and the oxidative stability. The CAM and FIB were economically more favourable. We found that a concentrate for feedlot lambs based on alternative ingredients, including several by-products, could be a feasible alternative to typical cereal-soybean meal-based concentrates.

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Growth, carcass characteristics and meat quality of rabbits given maize ears or maize plant

Animal Science ◽

10.1079/asc200677 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 82 (5) ◽

pp. 731-737

Author(s):

M. Pla ◽

M. Martínez ◽

C. Cervera

Keyword(s):

Meat Quality ◽

Control Diet ◽

Fatty Acid Content ◽

Carcass Characteristics ◽

Live Weight ◽

Point Of View ◽

Maize Plant ◽

Control Group ◽

Intermuscular Fat ◽

Group 2

AbstractThree hundred young rabbits were divided into three groups at weaning and given ad libitum a control diet (C), or an experimental diet in which 0·20 of control diet was substituted by maize ear (E) or by whole maize plant (P) in order to examine their effects on fattening rabbits performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality. No significant differences were found in live-weight gain (45 g/day) or in food intake between diets but food conversion ratio was higher in the P group (2·4 g dry matter (DM) per g gain) than in E group (2·2 g DM per g gain). The rate of mortality was similar in the three groups. No differences between groups on live weight (2152 g) or in the digestive tract weight (437 g) were found and the dressing yield was similar in the three groups. At constant carcass weight, the carcasses of rabbits of the P group had lesser lumbar circumference and higher length to circumference ratio (P<0·0001) than of the C or E groups. No differences were found in the weights of liver or thoracic viscera, but kidneys of rabbits of P group were lighter than of the C or E groups. No differences between groups were found in the weights of scapular fat, perirenal fat, forelegs or thoracic cage, but the loin of rabbits of P group was heavier (291 v. 286 g) than in the other groups. Meat of rabbits P had higher L* and b* parameters of colour and higher water-holding capacity (P=0·003) but the meat of rabbits of the control group had less lipids (31 v. 36 g/kg meat) and more moisture (739 v. 735 g/kg meat) than of the experimental groups. The proportion of protein was higher in E group than in P group. Intra and intermuscular fat of hind leg meat from rabbits ‘maize’ substituted was more monounsaturated than control rabbits (34·2 v. 32·5 g·100 g lipids) and had lesser saturated: monounsaturated ratio (1·2 v. 1·3) indicating a more desirable meat from a nutritional point of view, but had less n-3 fatty acid content. Loin meat of the rabbits given E and P diets seems more tender than one fed conventionally (10·4 v. 11·4 kg) and meat of the rabbits ‘whole maize plant’ had more grass flavour (P=0·009) which is a positive factor for acceptability of consumers.

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Preliminary estimates of genetic parameters for carcass and meat quality traits in Australian sheep

Animal Production Science ◽

10.1071/an10126 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 50 (12) ◽

pp. 1135 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

S. I. Mortimer ◽

J. H. J. van der Werf ◽

R. H. Jacob ◽

D. W. Pethick ◽

K. L. Pearce ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Meat Quality ◽

Nutritional Value ◽

Genetic Correlations ◽

Research Centre ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Live Animal ◽

Sheep Industry ◽

Meat Quality Traits ◽

Australian Sheep ◽

Meat Colour

Using performance from progeny born in 2007 and 2008 generated by the Information Nucleus program of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation, preliminary estimates of heritability were obtained for a range of novel carcass and meat attributes of lamb relevant to consumers, including carcass characteristics, meat quality and nutritional value of lamb. Phenotypic and genetic correlations of live animal traits with carcass composition and meat quality traits were also estimated. The data were from progeny located at eight sites, sired by 183 rams from Merino, maternal and terminal meat breeds and were representative of the Merino, Border Leicester × Merino, Terminal × Merino and Terminal × Border Leicester-Merino production types of the Australian sheep industry. Data were available from 7176 lambs for weaning weight, 6771 lambs for ultrasound scanning and 4110 lambs for slaughter traits. For the novel meat quality traits, generally moderate to high heritability estimates were obtained for meat quality measures of shear force (0.27 aged 1 day, 0.38 aged 5 days), intramuscular fat (0.39), retail meat colour (range of 0.09 to 0.44) and myoglobin content (0.22). The nutritional value traits of omega-3 fatty acids and iron and zinc contents tended to have low to moderate heritabilities (0.11–0.37), although these were based on fewer records. Fresh meat colour traits were of low to moderate heritability (0.06–0.21) whereas measures of meat pH were of low heritability (~0.10). For the carcass traits, estimates of heritability were moderate to high for the various measures of carcass fat (0.18–0.50), muscle weight (0.22–0.35), meat yield (0.24–0.35), carcass muscle dimensions (0.25–0.34) and bone weight (0.27). Results indicate that for most lamb carcass and meat quality traits there is sufficient genetic variation for selection to alter successfully these characteristics. Additionally, most genetic correlations of live animal assessments of bodyweight, muscle and subcutaneous fat with the carcass and meat quality traits were favourable. Appropriate definition of breeding objectives and design of selection indexes should be able to account for the small unfavourable relationships that exist and achieve the desired outcomes from breeding programs.

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Effects of dietary vitamin E supplementation on fattening performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits of Karya male lambs

Archives Animal Breeding ◽

10.5194/aab-52-618-2009 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 52 (6) ◽

pp. 618-626 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

O. Atay ◽

Ö. Gökdal ◽

V. Eren ◽

Ş. Çetiner ◽

H. Yikilmaz

Keyword(s):

Vitamin E ◽

Meat Quality ◽

Conversion Efficiency ◽

Carcass Characteristics ◽

Dietary Vitamin ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Feed Conversion ◽

Feed Conversion Efficiency ◽

Meat Quality Traits ◽

Vitamin E Supplementation

Abstract. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary vitamin E supplementation on performance, slaughter-carcass characteristics and meat quality traits of Karya male lambs. Lambs weaned approximately at 10 weeks of age were divided into two groups. After the 10 days adaptation period, control group (CG, n7) and vitamin E group (VEG, n=6) lambs were fed on with concentrates ad libitum and 100 g hay/lamb/day for 70 days. In addition the VEG received a supplement on concentrates of 45 mg/lamb/day vitamin E during the fattening period. The meat quality traits were determined using m. longissimus dorsi (LD) obtained from split between 12th and 13th ribs on both groups lambs. Daily gain and feed conversion efficiency were 259 g and 5.3 for CG and 266 g and 4.7 for VEG, respectively. There was no vitamin E supplementation effect on the average daily weight gain and feed conversion efficiency (P>0.05). However, VEG had 10.5 % higher feed conversion efficiency than control lambs. Slaughter and carcass characteristics of lambs were not significantly affected from vitamin E supplementation (P>0.05). There were no effects of vitamin E supplementation on lightness (L*), redness (a*), yellowness (b*) and pH during 12-day aerobic storage. Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) values at day 2 were not affected by the vitamin E treatment. However, TBARS values on day 4 and 8 (P<0.05), and day 12 (P<0.01) were higher in the CG than in the VEG. Although not significant, 10 % higher feed conversion efficiency in VEG animals might suggest that vitamin E supplementation is useful to improve fattening performance.

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Carcass and Meat Quality of ewe Lambs Supplemented With Crude Glycerin in Different Finishing Systems

Ensaios e Ciência C Biológicas Agrárias e da Saúde ◽

10.17921/1415-6938.2020v24n3p293-297 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 293-297

Author(s):

Fabíola Cristine De Almeida Rego Grecco ◽

Simone Fernanda Nedel Pertile ◽

João Marcos Zequim Rodrigues ◽

Marilice Zundt ◽

Petrônio Pinheiro Porto ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Meat Quality ◽

Plasma Glucose ◽

Live Weight ◽

Crude Glycerin ◽

Quality Traits ◽

Feeding System ◽

Creep Feeding ◽

Glucose Content ◽

Meat Quality Traits ◽

Ewe Lambs

O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar as características de desempenho, carcaça e qualidade da carne de borregas terminadas em dois sistemas: com suas mães no sistema de creep feeding e confinadas após o desmame. Dezesseis borregas mestiças Texel x Hampshire Down foram divididas em dois tratamentos: borregas com suas mães, alimentadas em creep feed ou desmamadas e confinadas. A dieta oferecida aos dois tratamentos consistiu em 420 g kg-1 de volumoso (cana-de-açúcar) e 580 g kg-1 de concentrado, com adição de 70 g kg-1 de glicerina bruta na matéria seca da dieta. Amostras de sangue foram coletadas no início e no final do período experimental para avaliar a glicemia. Os animais foram abatidos quando atingiram peso vivo médio de 28 kg. Os animais terminados no sistema creep feeding apresentaram maior nível de glicose plasmática. Os valores médios obtidos para as características de peso e rendimento de carcaça foram maiores para os animais criados no sistema creep feeding. Em geral, as variáveis de composição química e características da carne dos animais não diferiram entre os sistemas de terminação, exceto o valor do pH e a capacidade de retenção de água. As características de desempenho e qualidade da carne de borregas terminadas nos sistemas avaliados foram semelhantes, e as borregas terminadas no sistema creep feeding tiveram carcaças mais pesadas do que as terminadas nos sistemas de confinamento. Palavras-chave: Ganho de peso. Ovinos. Rendimento de carcaça. Subproduto. Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance, carcass and meat quality traits of ewe lambs finished in two systems: with their mothers in a creep feeding system and early weaning followed by feedlot. Sixteen Texel × Hampshire Down crossbred ewe lambs were separated into two treatment groups, consisting of ewe lambs with their mothers, fed by creep feeding or weaned and confined. The diet offered to both treatments consisted of 420 g kg-1 of roughage (sugar cane) and 580 g kg-1 concentrate, with the addition of 70 g kg-1 of crude glycerin in the dry matter of the diet. Blood samples were collected at the beginning and end of the experimental period to measure plasma glucose content. The animals were slaughtered when they reached an average of 28 kg live weight. Animals finished in creep feeding systems had a higher amount of plasma glucose. The mean values obtained for weight and yield carcass characteristics were better in creep feeding. In general, the chemical composition and meat quality variables did not differ between the finishing systems, except for the pH value and water loss under pressure. The performance and meat quality traits of ewe lambs in the evaluated finishing systems were similar, and the ewe lambs in the creep feeding system had greater carcass weight than ewe lambs finishing in feedlot systems. Keywords: Byproducts. Carcass Yield. Sheep. Weight Gain.

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