Performance, Livability, Carcass Yield and Meat Quality of Tunisian Local Poultry and Fast-Growing Genotype (Arbor Acres) Fed Standard Diet and Raised Outdoor Access

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziza Moujahed ◽  
Brahim Haddad
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1202-1208
Author(s):  
Do-Gyun Kim ◽  
Joon-Yong Shim ◽  
Byoung-Kwan Cho ◽  
Collins Wakholi ◽  
Youngwook Seo ◽  
...  

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify a distribution pattern of meat quality grade (MQG) as a function of carcass yield index (CYI) and the gender of Hanwoo (bull, cow, and steer) to determine the optimum point between both yield and quality. We also attempted to identify how pre- and post-deboning variables affect the gender-specific beef quality of Hanwoo.Methods: A total of 31 deboning variables, consisting of 7 pre-deboning and 24 post-deboning variables from bulls (n = 139), cows (n = 69), and steers (n = 153), were obtained from the National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) in South Korea. The database was reconstructed to be suitable for a statistical significance test between the CYI and the MQG as well as classification of meat quality. Discriminant function analysis was used for classifying MQG using the deboning parameters of Hanwoo by gender.Results: The means of CYI according to 1+, 1, 2, and 3 of MQG were 68.64±2.02, 68.85±1.94, 68.62±5.88, and 70.99±3.32, respectively. High carcass yield correlated with low-quality grade, while high-quality meat most frequently was obtained from steers. The classification ability of pre-deboning parameters was higher than that of post-deboning parameters. Moisture and the shear force were the common significant parameters in all discriminant functions having a classification accuracy of 80.6%, 71%, and 56.9% for the bull, cow, and steer, respectively.Conclusion: This study provides basic information for predicting the meat quality by gender using pre-deboning variables consistent with the actual grading index.


2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.S. Dalólio ◽  
D.P. Vaz ◽  
J. Moreira ◽  
L.F.T. Albino ◽  
L.R. Valadares

Enzyme supplementation in diets based on corn and soybean meal can improve the productive performance of broilers. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the effect of the inclusion of different levels of an enzyme complex consisting of phytase, protease, xylanase, ?-glucanase, cellulase, amylase, and pectinase, for diets based on corn and soybean meal, on the parameters of carcass yield and meat quality of broilers. Six hundred broiler chicks were used, and the animals were females with one day of age, from the Cobb 500 strain, and distributed in a completely randomized design, with five levels of inclusion of the enzyme complex (0, 100, 200, 300 and 400), and six repetitions, with twenty animals each. The carcass yield and meat quality were evaluated at 35 and 42 days of age. We evaluated the characteristics of weight loss by cooking (WLC), shear force (SF), water holding capacity (WHC), pH, lightness (L*) and color (a* and b*). The parameters of performance, carcass yield and carcass parts, and meat quality were not affected by the enzyme supplementation of diets fed to broiler chickens (P >0.05), except for the performance characteristics of the breast and the wings at 42 days of age (P < 0.05).


Meat Science ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 51-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Tůmová ◽  
Darina Chodová ◽  
Jana Vlčková ◽  
Tomáš Němeček ◽  
Linda Uhlířová ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Celina Eugenio Bahule ◽  
Jerônimo Ávito Gonçalves de Brito ◽  
Eric Marcio Balbino ◽  
Adriana Conceição Machado ◽  
Saulo Silva Batista ◽  
...  

SUMMARY This work evaluated the effect of including sweet potato meal (SPM), as an alternative to corn in broiler chicken diets, on performance, carcass yield, intestinal morphometry, organ biometry, meat quality and drumstick pigmentation. The study used 936 male Cobb-500 chicks. The experiment had a completely randomized, 3x2 factorial design, with three diet types. These included corn as the energetic ingredient in the standard diet (corn-soybean meal, CSM), and an increasing (ISP) and decreasing (DSP) inclusion of sweet potato meal as a corn substitute, in association with exogenous enzymes, for a total of six treatments with six repetitions and 26 birds per plot. During the period of 1 to 21 days, there was an interaction (P<0.05) for the weight gain (WG) variable; the CSM diets promoted greater WG in relation to the ISP and DSP groups, when supplemented with exogenous enzymes. There was an increase (P<0.05) in surface absorption of the jejunum villi and relative weight of the pancreas, and worse feed conversion (FC), for the ISP and DSP diets. With exception of the pancreas, for the entire period of 1 to 39 days the performance, yield of the carcass and cuts, meat quality, relative weight of the liver, and feet pigmentation variables were not affected (P>0.05) by the factors evaluated. Sweet potato meal, independent of the inclusion program (ISP/DSP) and enzyme supplementation, could partially substitute corn in broiler chicken feed, guaranteeing good performance, carcass yield and meat quality.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-357
Author(s):  
M. Oblakova ◽  
N. Mincheva ◽  
P. Hristakieva ◽  
I. Ivanova ◽  
M. Lalev ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Murray ◽  
S. D. M. Jones

The effects of genotype for stress susceptibility with respect to the halothane gene (PSS genotype: NN = homozygous normal, Nn = heterozygous, nn = homozygous recessive), in combination with fasting and mixing during the 24 h prior to shipping for slaughter upon the carcass traits and quality of the longissimus muscle were investigated using a total of 229 pigs. In comparison to pigs of the NN genotype, pigs of the nn genotype had higher warm carcass yield, cold carcass yield, yield of the major cuts and lean yield of the major cuts by 47, 39, 5 and 15 g kg−1, respectively. Pigs of the Nn genotype had 30 and 8 g kg−1 higher warm carcass yield and yield of major cuts, respectively, than did NN pigs. Pigs of the nn genotype had 178 g kg−1 and pigs of the Nn genotype had 66 g kg−1 more total lean in the major cuts than NN pigs but these differences were not detected by the carcass grading system. Mixing and fasting both caused live-animal weight losses and reduction of warm carcass yield. Fasting had the greater influence, decreasing live animal weight by 54 g kg−1 and the warm carcass yield by 12 g kg−1 in comparison to the unmixed, unfasted pigs. Combined fasting and mixing for 24 h decreased live animal weight by 62 g kg−1 and the warm carcass yield by 19 g kg−1 in comparison to the unmixed, unfasted pigs. Pigs of both nn and Nn genotypes produced poorer muscle quality than did those of the NN genotype. Fasting of pigs for 24 h pre-slaughter alleviated the PSE problem to a small extent. Mixing, with or without fasting, improved muscle quality of pigs of the Nn and nn genotypes. However, such gains in meat quality due to mixing and/or fasting are negated by the decreases in the carcass yield, by the additional carcass damage due to fighting and finally by their possible detriment to animal welfare. Key words: Mixing, fasting, halothane genotype, carcass, pork quality, pigs


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