Vegetable-based feed formulation on poultry meat quality

Feed Formulation for Fish and Poultry

Muscle Growth and Poultry Meat Quality Issues

Over the past 50 years the worldwide growing demand of poultry meat has resulted in pressure on breeders, nutritionists and growers to increase the growth rate of birds, feed efficiency, size of breast muscle and reduction in abdominal fatness. Moreover, the shift toward further processed products has emphasized the necessity for higher standards in poultry meat to improve sensory characteristi...

The Efficacy of Plant based Diets on Growth Potential, Energy Utilization, Nutrient Digestibility, Leg Bone Development and Litter Quality of Meat Chickens

Both plant and animal ingredients are used commonly to formulate balanced diets for poultry. Although many changes have been occurred in the genetics, nutrition and feeding of modern meat chickens, free selection and indiscriminate uses of feedstuffs for the non-ruminant animal diets can be hazardous due to the emerging threat of diseases outbreak via animal by-products. Besides this, many othe...

Genetic Variability of Poultry Meat Quality

Poultry meat production has been very dynamic over the last decade and now occupies the second place in the world just after pork. At the same time, the marketing of poultry has been greatly diversified: if in the sixties in the USA only 17% of broilers were sold as parts or further processed products, it represented more than 90% in 1998 (Mandava and Hoogenkamp, 1999). The same trends are obse...

Microbiological quality of poultry meat on the Croatian market

This paper presents an investigation of the microbiological quality of poultry meat sold on the Croatian market. Bacteriological analysis was performed on 66 samples of fresh, retail-cut chicken meat (21 samples of chicken breasts without skin “fillet”, and 19 samples of chicken breasts with skin) and frozen ground chicken meat (26 samples). Samples were collected from retailers (kept in coolin...