Fattening performance slaughter carcass and meat quality traits of Karayaka lambs
     
Yazarlar (4)
Uğur Şen Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Emre ŞİRİN Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University, Türkiye
Zafer Ulutaş Niğde Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Mehmet Kuran Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION
Dergi ISSN 0049-4747 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SSCI
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 02-2011
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 43 / 2 / 409–416 DOI 10.1007/s11250-010-9707-y
Makale Linki http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11250-010-9707-y
Özet
In order to verify the fattening performance, slaughter and carcass characteristics and to investigate the changes in some meat quality traits of Karayaka lambs weaned at 3 months of age, 39 lambs (23 males and 16 females) were used as experimental animals. The lambs were fed a concentrate mixture and alfalfa hay (120 and 168 g crude protein and 2,700 and 1,951 ME/kg, respectively) for a period of 60 days of fattening period. Male lambs were superior (p < 0.05) to female lambs in terms of daily weight gain (270.4 vs. 205.4 g; SEM = 9.46), hot and cold carcass weights (16.7 and 16.0 vs. 14.1 and 13.4 kg, respectively; SEM = 0.35), intra-muscular fat ratios (1.9% vs. 2.5%; SEM = 0.12) and dripping loss of semitendinosus muscle 3 days postmortem (8.1% vs. 10.2%; SEM = 0.36). The relative weights of some organs, the meat quality traits (pH, cooking loss, shear force, CIELab colour characteristics …
Anahtar Kelimeler
Sheep, Karayaka, Performance, Carcass components, Meat quality