Aims: This study was carried out to investigate the carcass characteristics of male and female rabbits raised in semi-arid condition.Methods Results: Twenty-four (24) rabbits, comprising 12 bucks does, were used for this study. At weeks age, weighed slaughtered. Parameters measured include; pre-slaughter weight (kg), hot (g), four primal cut weights (shoulder, ribs, loin rump), internal organs ...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of unsaturated fatty acids supplementation on growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing lambs. Thirty-two finishing Afshari lambs (initial weigh 58 ± 5 kg and 8 mo age) were used in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments (slaughtered in time series) and 8 lambs/treatment for the final 30 d before slaughter. The sla...

Various molecular genetic markers are used to comprehensively assess the breeding value of animals based on information. Therefore, an important place in qualitative improvement beef cattle breeds is occupied by methods animal selection using immunogenetic characteristics their blood. The purpose study determine dependence weight growth and meat productivity Ukrainian breed number similar antig...

The effects of breed, slaughter weight and ageing time on the meat quality of the three most important Spanish breeds were considered. Two hundred and twenty-five lambs of Rasa Aragonesa-local meat breed-, Churra-local dairy breed- and Spanish Merino were used. Animals (75 of each breed) were slaughtered at three different live weights (10-12, 20-22 or 30-32 kg), and the meat was aged for 1, 2,...

The genetic parameters for growth, reproductive and maternal traits in a multibreed meat sheep population were estimated by applying the Average Information Restricted Maximum Likelihood method to an animal model. Data from a flock supported by the Programa de Melhoramento Genético de Caprinos e Ovinos de Corte (GENECOC) were used. The traits studied included birth weight (BW), weaning weight (...

Technological meat quality is a significant economic factor in pork production, and numerous publications have shown that it is strongly influenced both by genetic status and by rearing and slaughter conditions. The quality of meat is often described by meat pH at different times postmortem, as well as by color and drip loss, whereas carcass quality is often characterized by lean percentage. A ...

The productivity, slaughter parameters and weight of internal organs fattening young rabbits the White Giant breed additionally fed by probiotic supplement Probiol containing three types lactic acid bacteria (Streptococcus faecium, Lactobacillus plantarum, salius) have been researched. It was found out that additional feeding in amount 0.025 % to feed has a positive effect on survival indicator...

One thousand two hundred pigs were weaned at 4 weeks of age and mixed to form groups of ten animals that were balanced for gender. The groups consisted of uniform weight groups (i.e. separate groups of small, medium or large pigs), or mixed weight groups (i.e. groups containing small, medium and large pigs). Half of the groups were retained from weaning until slaughter at 21 weeks of age, and h...

the aim of this study was to determine the principal reasons for condemnation of broiler poultry carcasses and its economic losses in namin slaughter-house of iran from  february 2008 to  march 2009 . in this period, 2741794 poultry were slaughtered which were7662237 kg live weight and 5560963 kg eviscerated meat .from these , 20479 carcasses responsible for 0.74% of total slaughter with overal...