The objective of this study was to determine the effects of different transport times on broilers during summer on stress, meat quality, and early postmortem muscle metabolites. Arbor Acres broiler chickens (n = 105) were randomly categorized into 5 treatments: unstressed control, 0.5 h, 1 h, 2 h, and 4 h transport. Each treatment consisted of 3 replicates with 7 birds each. All birds (except t...

background: previous research has shown that cr is needed for growth and protein synthesis. objectives:  this study was carried out to determine the effects of supplementing chromium-methionine (cr-met) on performance, hematologic characteristics and meat quality parameters in kids. methods: thirty-two male kids (average initial bw of 22 ± 2 kg, 4mo) were used in a completely randomized design ...

In recent years, Japanese quail meat has gained much popularity among consumers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the meat quality characteristics and nutritional composition of Nandanam Quail-III (Coturnix coturnix japonica) meat as influenced by age at slaughter. Totally twelve birds were divided into two different age groups. The birds were slaughtered and breast muscle was obtained. Th...

The feasibility of using visible/near-infrared spectroscopy (vis/NIR) to segregate broiler breast fillets by water-holding capacity (WHC) was determined. Broiler breast fillets (n = 72) were selected from a commercial deboning line based on visual color assessment. Meat color (L*a*b*), pH (2 and 24 h), drip loss, and salt-induced water uptake were measured. Reflectance measurements were recorde...

Several factors may affect poultry breast meat quality, both intrinsic characteristics (age, sex, size and strain) and external influences (carcass aging time postmortem before deboning, fillet marination and cooking method). Commercial duck processors are now expanding into the deboned breast meat markets but very little research is available on duck meat quality as compared to other poultry s...

Structural and functional properties of the skeletal muscle determine the meat quality in agriculturally used animals. Post-mortem changes of these properties vary among individual animals and can eventually lead to occurrence of poor meat quality depending on environmental conditions at slaughter. In pigs, as well as in poultry species, the PSE meat condition [pale, soft, exudative meat] predo...

One hundred seventy-seven pigs were used to determine the interaction effects of fasting and length of transport prior to harvest on pork muscle quality. The study design was a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial, which involved two genetic sources, fasting (F) or no fasting (N) of pigs 48-h prior to harvest, and three transport times (0.5, 2.5, or 8.0 h) on a semitrailer to the packing plant. Genetic source w...

1. Investigations were made into the breast and leg muscle energy metabolism, and the quality of breast meat of turkeys after controlled atmosphere stunning or stun-killing (CAS) with various gas mixtures. In addition, the effect on meat quality of an increase in the chilling rate of turkey breast meat after hypercapnic or anoxic stun-killing was studied. 2. A total of 35 turkey toms within t...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of dietary soy isoflavone (ISF, 0 and 20 mg/kg) on performance, meat quality and antioxidative property in male broilers. Six replicates of 45 birds (42 d old) were used for each treatment. The birds were fed soybean meal-free diets containing 3% oxidized fish oil (acid value, 6.76 mg potassium hydroxide/g; and peroxide value, 6.18 meq/kg) for 3 ...

The aim of the current work was to present main quality characteristics and composition meat most valuable parts carcass - breasts legs 35-day-old domestic quails from meat, dual-purpose egg-laying type. obtained results give basis assume that glycogen reserve pectoral muscle can be associated with productive type, which highest in type line WG (ΔрН=-0.573±0.053 compared ΔрН=-0.299±0.059 А, P<0...