Meat quality estimation of the Estonian Landrace pigs
1997
Eilart, K. | Poldvere, A. (Estonian Agricultural Univ., Tartu (Estonia))
The objectives of the research were to control meat quality of the Estonian Landrace pigs using both physical and chemical analyses of meat and find out connections between meat quality and parents or boar. The aim of this paper was to compare different methods of determining lean meat content in carcass by Ultra-FOM 100, ZP-method and full dissection of carcasses and to distribute carcasses by lean meat content according to SEUROP- classification. Data of 657 pigs were used. The pigs originated from 23 sire lines. On the basis of the present data the average lean meat content is 54.5 per cent. At the same time 49.6 per cent and 38.8 per cent of carcasses belong to E and U class, respectively, according to SEUROP carcass evaluation system. The lean meat content measured by lean meat meter FOM was on the average 3.4 per cent higher than that obtained by ZP-method. Thus, dissection results were 5.2 per cent higher compared to ZP-method and 1.3 per cent higher compared to the results obtained by FOM
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