Caractérisation anatomique de la carcasse de la canette de barbarie (Cairina moschata L.)

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A group of 22 females muscovy ducklings was slaughtered at 10 weeks of age to assess the share of different carcass components, especially fat deposit and skin, and to estimate correlations between them. Weight and percentage of each carcass component are given in tables 1 and 2, correlations in tables 3 and 4. Breast (without bone), wings, thighs + drumsticks, abdominal fat, total dissected subcutaneous fat and total dissected skin represented 16.2, 9.7, 17.5, 4.1, 4.0 and 10.7 percent of live weight, respectively. Correlations between raw weights of the different components were generally high. Between live weight and fat deposit percentages, correlations of about .6 were obtained. As far as relationships between live weight percentages are concerned, skin and subcutaneous fat developments appeared relatively independent. Results were compared with 3 other experiments involving 10-week old female muscovy carcasses. These comparisons are summarized in table 5 and the same general conclusions were drawn. As shown in table 6, thighs + drumsticks gave a good estimation for total skin and subcutaneous fat percentages of the whole carcass, which confirmed results obtained in broiler chickens. Our results may be of interest for the cutting of female muscovy ducklings.

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