CARCASS COMPOSITION AND MEAT QUALITY OF COMMON PHEASANTS (PHASIANUS COLCHICUS COLCHICUS) DEPENDING ON SEX OF BIRDS

Characteristics of common pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus ) meat

1 Dept. of Meat Science, Faculty of Food Science and Fisheries, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland 2 Center of Bioimmobilization and Innovative Packaging Materials, Faculty of Food Science and Fisheries, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland 3 Division of Sciences of Commoditives and Food Quality, Faculty of Food Science and Fisheries, West Pomerania...

Growth and development of young game pheasants (Phasianus colchicus)

Fifty game pheasants were kept to 8 weeks in confinement housing and later maintained outdoors in a partially roofed aviary. Pheasants received commercial feed mixtures ad libitum. Body weight and dimensions were determined every 4 weeks. Ten pheasants were selected for slaughter at the end of 18 and 20 weeks each. After slaughter, their heads, shanks, feathers, blood, inedible viscera and majo...

Consequences of prenatal androgen exposure for the reproductive performance of female pheasants (Phasianus colchicus).

Maternal hormones in vertebrate eggs can mediate important forms of maternal effects. However, the function of hormone transfer to the eggs is still debated, especially because long-term fitness consequences have been little studied. We investigated the effect of prenatal exposure to physiologically elevated yolk testosterone (T) levels on reproduction of female pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) ...

Serological evidence of exposure to zoonotic tick-borne bacteria in pheasants (Phasianus colchicus).

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Previous studies on tick-borne pathogens in the avian population have focused mainly on the detection of the agents in ticks collected from birds, but data about the presence of tick-borne bacteria in these animals are scant. The aim of the presented study was to verify the exposure to some zoonotic tick-borne bacteria, in particular, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrel...

Effects of spring supplementary feeding on population density and breeding success of released pheasants <i>Phasianus colchicus</i> in Britain