Research on the Effects of Gender and Feeding Geese Oats and Hybrid Rye on Their Slaughter Traits and Meat Quality

摘要

The research showed the influence of the gender of geese on some slaughter value traits and meat quality of geese slaughtered at the age of 17 weeks. It was found that ganders had a greater body and carcass weight than females but no significant differences in slaughter yield nor in carcass element share were observed. Gender did not have an effect on the majority of the studied breast meat quality traits. The studied feeding model did not have a significant influence on goslings’ body weight; however, the birds fed hybrid rye had a lower slaughter yield as compared with those fed oats, but their meat had better physical and chemical characteristics (lower fat content, lower drip loss, higher protein content and, in the female goslings, also better sensory quality). Hybrid rye may be used in geese feed because it does not have a negative effect on pre-slaughter body weight and has a positive effect on some meat quality traits as compared with feeding geese oats.