Research on carcass quality of pigs grown up in different farms
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Date
2019-04-11
Authors
Koscelkovskienė, I.
Pupelienė, I.
Ribikauskienė, D.
Živatkauskienė, I.
Kravchenko, O. I.
Кравченко, Оксана Іванівна
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The analysis of carcass quality data received from the companies classifying pig
carcasses was carried out. The data of carcass quality collected in 2016 from eight Lithuanian
pig farms (n = 18821) were estimated. The following criteria were applied for the analysis of
carcass quality: fat depth (mm), muscle depth, carcass weight and lean meat content according
to SEUROP classes. The average fat thickness of pig carcasses was 21.11 mm in all tested
farms and the average weight of carcasses was 84.62 per cent. The majority of the estimated
pig carcasses were in classes S and E, amounting 87 per cent of the total weight of carcasses.
The analysis of carcass quality revealed that majority of the class S carcasses were on farm
No. 7 (59.07 per cent), and carcasses of the class E - on farm No. 8 (54.59 per cent). The
highest lean meat content was estimated in farm No. 7, which was 1.28 per cent higher in
comparison to the total lean meat content of all the farms.
Keywords
pigs, carcasses, carcass quality, carcass classification, SEUROP