Consumers believe that quality of foods from organic production is superior to foods from conventional production. The objectives of the present study have therefore been to compare the quality of chicken meat from organic and conventional production on the basis of traditional meat quality criteria. The experiment was organized as a field study. Fresh organic broiler carcasses were purchased d...

The study pertains to estimation of carcass cuts in Soviet Chinchilla bucks. The results indicate that the slaughter weight significantly influences the weight of the fore legs (P< 0.05) and hind legs (P< 0.01). The quadratic regression equations provide the best estimators for all the carcass cuts and the carcass as a whole. The accuracy of the predictors is highest for

The objective of this study was to evaluate effects of age, sex, and postmortem carcass aging duration on parts yield from broiler chickens. Two hundred twenty-four mixed-sex broilers were reared under commercial-like conditions for various periods between 37 and 51 d, slaughtered, packed in ice, and then aged for 0, 2, 4, or 6 h. Mean percentage yield of thighs, drumsticks, forequarters, wings...

The objectives were to study the relationship between in vivo ultrasound measurements and cold carcass measurements at 4 anatomical points along the backbone of lambs and to determine appropriate regression equations to estimate carcass composition by using ultrasonic measurements at each anatomical point. The lambs (n = 114) used were suckling lambs (BW = 11.09 kg), light lambs (BW = 22.43 kg)...

Composting is an alternative method of carcass disposal in those situations when conventional methods are inadequate. With proper maintenance and monitoring, carcass composting systems can be safe and efficient with minimal environmental impacts. Importantly, proper composting eliminates many pathogens and may reduce levels of carcass contamination with spore-forming bacteria, prions, and other...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of using thyme (Thymus vulgaris L; TH) or cumin (Cuminum cyminum L; CC) seeds either alone or in combination (at two levels 0.15 or 0.30% of each) to improve the utilization of the low energy broiler diet (LE), containing 2890 kcal ME/kg diet at grower period and 3026 kcal ME/kg diet at finisher period. The diets were formulated to be nearly is...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Yi Xiong Name of the doctoral dissertation In-plane Tire Deformation Measurement Using a Multi-Laser Sensor System Publisher School of Engineering Unit Department of Mechanical Engineering Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 89/2016 Field of research Engineering Design and Production Manuscript su...