Quality of carcasses and meat from male and female rabbits

Meat from rabbits offers high nutritive properties as it has levels of essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins. Rabbit meat is also regarded lean, since contains less fat than many other types. The composition rabbit lipids favourable due to higher contents unsaturated fatty acids compared types meat. aim the present study was examine compare quality male female rabbits. A total 24 (12 males 12 females) were used. slaughtered at an age 17–18 weeks. following parameters studied: slaughter traits, colour, pH, cooking loss, tenderness, content water holding capacity (WHC). Interestingly, ultimate pH significantly lower in (p = 0.008). Moreover, losses 0.001). No relevant differences found between suggesting that sex might be a minor factor production chosen age.