Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry 23 ( 5-6), p 291 – 301 , 2007 ISSN 1450-9156 Publisher: Institute for Animal Husbandry, Belgrade-Zemun UDC 636. 4 _____________________________________________________________________________________
COMPARABLE PRESENTATION OF CARCASS AND MEAT QUALITY OF DIFFERENT PIG GENOTYPES USING MODERN EVALUATION METHODS** O. Kosovac¹*, S. Josipović1, B. Živković¹, Č. Radović¹, G. Marinkov¹, D. Tomašević¹ 1
Institute for Animal Husbandry, Belgrade-Zemun, Zemun 11080, Serbia *Corresponding author, e-mail:
[email protected], **Original scientific paper. Research financed by the Ministry of Science of Republic of Serbia, Project BTN 351008 B
Abstract: In this paper quality of carcasses/carcass sides and meat from 5 different pig genotypes was comparably evaluated. Quality of carcass sides was evaluated prior to slaughtering in vivo (SONOMARK SM 100 M), early post mortem on slaughter line (FOM), by method of two points (ZP – ZWEIPUNKT) as well as method of partial dissection on cold left carcass sides according to EU recommendations. By analysis of obtained results it can be concluded that fatteners of type E (LW x SL) x P had the highest meat yield in carcass sides (61,90; 62,40; 58,85 and 58,89%) by any other mentioned methods of evaluation compared to average meat yield in carcass sides of other investigated genotypes. Average yield of muscle tissue in carcasses of pigs of E genotype (LW x SL) x P (58,89%) established by method of partial dissection was statistically considerably higher (*p
