Evaluation of the lean meat colour of commercial pigs produced in Quebec

Evaluation of specific populations of commercial pigs produced in Québec for feed performance, carcass yield and lean meat colour

“…meat, l4.9%o dark meat and l.2%o very dark meat (Table 5). This is similar to the results of Hammell et al (1994) …”

“…Can (lgjj) found that ovei a fixed weight period feed consumption was correlated to the feed/gain ratio. Sather and Fredien (1978), Bark et al (1992) and Woltmann et al (1992) Pigs originated from different trials and it has been shown previously that there was a trial effect on the variables measured (Hammell et al 1993(Hammell et al ,1994 Ramsey et al (1990) and Cromwell et al (1993) have shown that barrows have thicker bacKat than gilts. Also, a previous analysis of the data from the PEPC pigs has shown that barrows grow faster and eat more per day than gilts (Hammell et al 1993 A chi-square analysis of the data showed that the sexes were not distributed at random within the treatments (P < 0.0001).…”