Artigo Revisado por pares

Effects of age and sex on meat quality of Turkish native geese raised under a free-range system.

2011; University of Kafkas; Volume: 17; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1309-2251

Autores

Turgut Kırmızıbayrak, Kadir Önk, Bülent Ekiz, Hülya Yalçıntan, Alper Yılmaz, Kemal YAZICI, Ahmet Altınel,

Tópico(s)

Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

Resumo

Summary This study was conducted to determine the effects of sex and age on meat quality characteristics of Turkish native geese raised under a free-range system. The range of least squares means for age and sex subgroups in terms of ultimate pH, water holding capacity (WHC), drip loss (DL), cooking loss (CL) and Warner-Bratzler shear force (SF) were 5.74-5.88, 8.99-9.69%, 3.36-3.63%, 27.67-29.97% and 3.15-3.38 kg/cm2, respectively. Least squares means for colour characteristics of breast skin were 61.97-62.60 for lightness (L*), 5.11-5.84 for redness (a*) and 11.18-12.26 for yellowness (b*) according to age and sex groups. Colour variables of breast meat were 40.15-40.59 for L*, 12.30-13.61 for a* and 0.83-1.16 for b* parameters. While the effect of age on breast meat quality characteristics were not significant (P>0.05), sex affected on ultimate pH and a* parameter significantly ( P 0.05).

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