Quality traits of carcass sides and meat of Moravka and Mangalitsa pig breeds

Abstract

Objective of this paper was to evaluate phenotypic variability of carcass side traits and quality of meat of fatteners (male castrated heads) of Moravka breed (M) and Mangalitsa (swallow-belly Mangalitsa-LM). The quantity and content of meat were determined based on dissection of left carcass sides (Walstra and Merkus, 1996). Also, nutritive properties of musculus longissimus dorsi (m.l.d.) were established. Obtained data were processed using GLM procedure of the program package SAS 9.1.3 (SAS Inst.Inc., 2002-2003). Results of the study show that Moravka fatteners had longer carcass sides (+6.82 and + 5.00 cm) compared to Mangalitsa breed, corrected to average body weight at slaughtering. Fatteners of M breed had in average higher total mass of back-loin part (+0.685, P<0.05) and average quantity of muscles in the same part of carcass side (+0.631 kg, P<0.01), compared to fatteners of LM breed. Also, they had higher quantity of muscle in belly-rib part (+0.237 kg, P<0.05) compared to LM. Share of muscle tissue in back-loin and belly-rib carcass side parts corrected for WCC, was higher in M carcass sides than in LM (P<0.01). Conversely, muscle tissue content in shoulders of Mangalitsa was higher (+4.8% ; P<0.05) than in Moravka. Share of muscle tissue in carcass sides of M pigs was by 4.3% higher compared to LM carcass sides. In m.l.d. of Moravka water content was higher (+6.1%, P<0.01), content of total lipids (-6.5%, P<0.05) and cholesterol (-19.68 mg/100 g, P<0.001) was lower than in Mangalitsa.

Fatty acid profile of &lt;i&gt;m. longissimus dorsi&lt;/i&gt; of Mangalitsa and Moravka pig breeds

“…The crude protein content in MLD of Moravka pigs (M, 21.47 %) was similar to that found by Petrović et al (2010;21.61 %) for the same breed and identical to mean value determined by Senčić et al (2011;21.47 %) for Black Slavonian pigs which had been fed with mixture containing higher protein levels.…”

“…However, another group of researchers could not demonstrate statistically significant differences (Kim et al 2009, Parunović et al 2012a. In MLD of Swallowbelly Mangalitsa pigs examined in the current study, there was on average, 71.06 % of water, which was higher than water contents reported by Holló et al (2003), Parunović et al (2012a, b) and Petrović et al (2010) for same breed. However, our measured mean water content was similar to results obtained by Petrović et al (2012) for the same pig breed reared in a closed housing system (71.06 % in the current study compared to 70.71 %).…”

“…Higher average values of water content in MLD were measured by Gajić & Isakov (2000). Total fat content in MLD of Swallow-belly Mangalitsa pigs in the current study was lower than was reported for the same strain of Mangalitsa pigs by Parunović et al (2012a, b) and Petrović et al (2010). The said authors determined total fat content ranging from 12.1 to 18.2 % in the MLD of Mangalitsa pigs, but the pigs in those studies were reared in the traditional way typical for autochthonous pig breeds (outdoor housing system, pasture fed, the inclusion of roots and other fruits in the diet with supplement of small amounts of corn, up to 0.3 kg/ animal/day).…”

Carcass properties, chemical content and fatty acid composition of the <i>musculus longissimus</i> of different pig genotypes

“…However, final live weight had a significant (P <0.01) influence on the warm and cold carcass weight of pigs. In a similar study, Petrović et al (2010) found significant differences in average masses of carcass sides (warm and cooled carcass sides) between breeds. The average mass of the cooled carcass sides of Moravka pigs was higher (84.2 kg) than SBM pigs (73.9 kg).…”

Differences in meat colour between free-range Swallow Belly Mangalitsa and commercially reared Swedish Landrace pigs during 6 days of vacuum storage

“…They are recorded in the domestic animal diversity information system (DAD-IS, 2015). Swallow Belly Mangalitsa is the most prevalent (Petrović et al, 2010), and it is primarily reared in the northern part of the country. There are also considerable populations of Mangalitsa in Hungary, Switzerland, Germany and Austria and some in Romania and in other areas of the former Yugoslavia (Putnam, 1991;Egerszegi et al, 2003).…”