EATING QUALITY OF BEEF FROM YOUNG HEREFORD BULLS AS INFLUENCED BY SLAUGHTER WEIGHT

Post-slaughter aspects of beef eating quality - July 1999

The eating quality of meat is a function of the animal production and carcase processing that has been applied. While live animal factors (animal age, nutrition, breed, pre-slaughter stress) often have a marked effect on beef eating quality, in many cases the treatment of the carcase on the slaughter floor and in the chiller can have a far greater effect. This update, which follows on from Meat...

Pre-slaughter aspects of beef eating quality - October 1999

Losses of both product quality and quantity during the critical pre-slaughter period are inevitable. These losses are the result of social, physical, environmental and nutritional stresses imposed on the animal between the farm/ feedlot and the abattoir knocking box. In the interests of animal welfare and beef quality, it is essential that effective management strategies be implemented to minim...

Scrotal Thermography as a Tool for Predicting Semen Quality and Natural-MatingFertility in Young Beef Bulls

Quality of beef from semi-intensively fattened heifers and bulls

Used were 15 bulls and 15 heifers of the Black-and-White Polish Holstein-Friesian breed, semiintensively fattened, with the aim of evaluating the effect of sex on the selected traits of quality of beef. Bulls were slaughtered at the mean age of 536.2 days and 523.1 kg body weight, and heifers at 528.7 days and 459.7 kg body weight, respectively. After slaughter and post-slaughter treatment, the...

Eating quality of young bulls from three Spanish beef breed-production systems and its relationships with chemical and instrumental meat quality.

Sensory characteristics of longissimus thoracis muscle from three local Spanish beef breed-production systems and their relationships with chemical and instrumental meat quality traits were studied. Young bulls of Bruna dels Pirineus (BP; n=69), Avileña-Negra Ibérica (A-NI; n=70) and Morucha (MO; n=70) breeds were reared in their own production systems. MO breed showed the highest water holding...