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Welfare, performance and meat quality of fattening pigs in alternative housing and management systems: a review Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Conventional husbandry systems for pork production are scrutinized by members of the general public as well as the scientific community. As a response, alternative forms of pig production, such as outdoor housing, organic farming and environmental enrichment are gaining interest. The question arises whether these production systems are indeed able to improve the welfare and health status of the animals, and whether these production systems alter ...
Exploring the microbiological quality and safety of dry-aged beef: A cross-sectional study of loin surfaces during ripening and dry-aged beef steaks from commercial meat companies in Belgium Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek Universiteit Gent
A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in Belgian beef producing companies to study the current practices and the microbiological load of dry-aged loins (during production) and trimmed steaks (final product). In each company, the temperature and relative humidity of the ripening chamber were measured, and two loins (each in a different stage of the ripening process) were sampled. From the surface of each loin, a lean meat and adipose tissue ...
SNP discovery and association study for growth, fatness and meat quality traits in Iberian crossbred pigs Universiteit Antwerpen
Iberian pigs and its crosses are produced to obtain high-quality meat products. The objective of this work was to evaluate a wide panel of DNA markers, selected by biological and functional criteria, for association with traits related to muscle growth, fatness, meat quality and metabolism. We used 18 crossbred Iberian pigs with divergent postnatal growth patterns for whole genome sequencing and SNP discovery, with over 13 million variants being ...
Evaluation of the performance, carcass and meat quality of gilts and immunocastrates in different sire lines. Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Slow-growing broilers with free-range access : effects on meat quality Universiteit Gent
Effect of sow lines and type of Belgian Piétrain sire line on carcass and meat quality Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Sensory meat quality differences for crossbred offspring of different terminal sire lines Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Behavior, production results and meat quality of intact boars and gilts housed in unmixed groups: a comparative study KU Leuven
Surgical castration of male pigs is a practice that will probably be abandoned in Europe in the future because of general protest against pain in animals and a growing concern on (farm) animal welfare. Rearing entire males will therefore inevitably be integrated in the pig sector. In the present study, possible differences in behavior, production results and meat quality between entire males and gilts, both housed in single-sex groups but ...
Effect of terminal sire line and timing second vaccination on effectiveness of immunocastration, performance, and carcass and meat quality Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek Universiteit Gent
Performance (from 10 weeks until slaughter), carcass and meat quality, and effectiveness of immunocastration was compared in crossbred offspring of stress positive (BP+) and negative (BP-) Belgian Piétrain and Canadian Duroc (CD) given the second vaccination of Improvac® at different times (4, 6, 8 weeks before slaughter). CD offspring had a significantly higher daily gain (DG) and feed intake (DFI), and lower predicted lean meat percentage ...