Effect of season on muscle characteristics of camel calves : [P57]

Autor: Abdelhadi, Omer M.A., Babiker, Salih A., Bauchart, D., Picard, B., Jurie, C., Faye, Bernard, Hocquette, J.F.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Book of abstracts of the 60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, Barcelona, Spain, August 24th-27th, 2009
Popis: Thirty 2-3 year-old camel calves fattened by local farmers in Sudan were used for this study. Ten calves were slaughtered according to different seasons (winter, summer and autumn) to examine the muscle characteristics according to season. Muscle samples were taken from Longissimus thoracis (LT) at the 5th thoracic vertebra. The overall chemical composition of LT showed mean values of 3.1, 17.2, 2.7 and 1.6% for DM, crude proteins, total lipids and fatty acids and ash, respectively. Unlike for CP and ash (P
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