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Fattening of Belgian Blue double-muscled culled females: animal performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality
Cabaraux, Jean-François; Hornick, Jean-Luc; Dufrasne, Isabelle et al.
2003In Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire, 147 (6, DEC-JAN), p. 423-431
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Abstract :
[en] In order to measure Animal performance and, carcass and meat characteristics of Belgian Blue double-muscled culled females, a fattening trial was carried out on a total of 78 animals. Fifteen females were slaughtered at the beginning of the trial and 63 were fattened on a maize silage based diet. The initial average live weight was 571.2kg. The total fattening gain was 91.1 kg for a period of 91.4 days. At slaughter, the warm carcass weight was 405.9kg and the killing-out proportion 63.3%. The carcasses were characterised by a high proportion of muscles (67.6%) and rather low proportions of adipose tissue (18.2%) and bones (14.2%). The muscle and adipose tissue accretions were 36.0 and 28.2 kg. Meat was lean as indicated by high protein content (88.5%) and low fat content (6.6%) in dry matter. A high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids was also found (6.8 mol %).
Disciplines :
Animal production & animal husbandry
Author, co-author :
Cabaraux, Jean-François  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Ecologie et éthologie vétérinaires
Hornick, Jean-Luc  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Nutrition des animaux domestiques
Dufrasne, Isabelle  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Nutrition des animaux domestiques
Clinquart, Antoine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de sciences des denrées alimentaires > Technologie des denrées alimentaires
Istasse, Louis ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Nutrition des animaux domestiques
Language :
French
Title :
Fattening of Belgian Blue double-muscled culled females: animal performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality
Publication date :
2003
Journal title :
Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire
ISSN :
0003-4118
eISSN :
1781-3875
Publisher :
Annales Medecine Veterinaire, Liege, Belgium
Volume :
147
Issue :
6, DEC-JAN
Pages :
423-431
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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