Slaughter age

Meat tenderness is the consumer’s most preferred sensory attribute. This trait is affected by a number of factors, including genotype, age, animal sex, and pre- and post-slaughter management. In view of the high percentage of Zebu genes in the Brazilian cattle population, mainly Nellore cattle, the improvement of meat tenderness is important since the increasing proportion of Zebu genes in the population reduces meat tenderness.

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A study was carried out in 30 Large White Yorkshire piglets to find out the effect of early and split weaning on carcass characteristics. Four weaning age groups, 56 days of conventional weaning age as group 1 (n=8), early weaning of entire litter at 28 days as group 2 (n=10), split weaned piglets with heavy litter weaned at 28 days as group 3 (n=6), weak litter left with sow up to 56 days as group 4 (n=6) were compared. By the end of study period pigs were slaughtered and the carcass traits studied included dressing percentage and Meat...

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A study was conducted to study the carcass characteristics of the Pattanam sheep breed of Tamil Nadu. Two groups each consisting of six male lambs with 5 to 6 months age in one group and 8 to 9 months age in the other group were subjected to humane slaughter and the carcass characteristics were assessed.

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The biological experiment was carried out with a total of five hundred and twenty five day old straight-run Japanese quail chicks up to 5 weeks of age. At the end of five weeks post hatch growth performance study, six birds from each treatment group were drawn randomly and subjected to humane method of slaughter. The study was conducted to assess the carcass yield on post-hatch performance of Japanese quail as influenced by supplementing Omega-3 PUFA rich oil sources like fish oil and linseed oil, independently and simultaneously at 2 and 4 per cent levels.

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In this study it is observed that animals mostly slaughtered in different slaughter houses across meat related zones in Tamil Nadu are below one year of age which indicates consumers’ preference to tender meat over tougher meat from old animals. Hence a need based approach has to be made to improve the practices in goat rearing to attain desirable body weight at an early age which will fetch good returns.

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The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of sex and age on physico-chemical and organoleptic qualities of Rajasri chicken at three different ages i.e. 16th, 20th and 24thweeks of age. Day old chicks (n=144) were reared to the age of 16, 20 24 weeks of age under the deep litter system. Six male and six females were slaughtered at 16, 20 and 24 weeks of age in each trail of total four trails.

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A study was conducted to compare the carcass characteristics and meat composition of a triple cross progeny involving (Hansli × CSML) ♂and CSFL ♀ chicken, taken as the treatment group, with that of a cross of coloured synthetic broiler parent lines (CSML ♂ × CSFL ♀) chicken, taken as the control group, raised under intensive management system. Six healthy birds of 8 weeks of age from each group were sacrificed for this purpose. The pre-slaughtered live weight, eviscerated weight and dressed weight were 1256.67±110.67g, 826.33±74.54g and 905.00±78.

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A study was conducted to the effect of garlic with two different levels on the growth performances and carcass characteristics of NandanamBroiler-2. A total of 84 day old NandanamBroiler-2 chicks were randomly allotted into three treatments with two replicates which contained 14 chicks in each replicate for 8 weeks experimental period. The dietary treatments were formulated as a control (T1), 0.25 % (T2), 0.50% (T3) garlic paste with basal diet. The data on production parameters like weekly body weight, feed consumption and mortality were recorded.

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The present study was conducted to investigate various micrometric parameters of bronchiole and bronchi in prenatal Gaddi sheep lung. A total of n=18 Gaddi sheep fetuses were collected from various slaughter houses in and around Palampur town for one year. The prenatal lung samples were divided into three groups which included group-I (0-50 days of gestation), group-II (50-100 days of gestation) and group-III (100-150 days of gestation) based on their age in days. The overall diameter of bronchiole increased from group-I to group-III.

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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế về bệnh thú y đề tài: Targeted surveillance to assess the presence of BSE in the age risk population of cattle slaughtered in Bursa, Turkey: preliminary results of an immunohistochemical detection study for the 2004-2005 period

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