creators_name: Weissmann, Friedrich
creators_name: Fischer, Klaus
creators_name: Biedermann, Günter
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-05-10
lastmod: 2009-09-09 13:39:26
metadata_visibility: show
title: Carcass and meat quality of different pig genotypes in an organic extensive outdoor fatting system
ispublished: pub
subjects: 2security
subjects: 7pigs
full_text_status: public
abstract: Carcass, meat, and fat quality were evaluated of 37 castrates of 4 different genotypes [Pi*Du*GLR (10), Pi*AS (7), Du (10), Du*GLR (10)] kept on grass clover and fed with coarse meal made up of farm grown cereal and grain legumes without optimising the amount of amino acids and their relation to the energy content. Due to the energy surplus in the diet and in relation to the diminishing muscularity of the genotypes (corresponding to the above-mentioned sequence) lean meat contents were on a low level whereas intramuscular fat contents increased distinctly. Sensory meat quality was only at a medium level and did not differ noticeably between the genotypes. It is concluded that adipose carcasses associated with increased intramuscular fat contents do not lead automatically to higher sensory meat qualities. Therefore the system boundaries of organic pig fattening cannot be used without further efforts supplying market niches for pork of high eating quality.
date: 2006
date_type: published
refereed: never
citation: Weissmann, Friedrich; Fischer, Klaus and Biedermann, Günter (2006) Carcass and meat quality of different pig genotypes in an organic extensive outdoor fatting system. Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/7080/2/7080_weissmann_porkquality_2.pdf