Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Schilling, M.W.

Committee Member

Thaxton, Y.V.

Committee Member

Martin, J.M.

Committee Member

Coggins, P.C.

Date of Degree

5-5-2007

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Food Science and Technology

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department

Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion

Abstract

Mechanical and hand catching of broilers were performed to determine if differences existed in breast meat quality among catching methods. Meat quality results were summarized using a two-prong approach to investigate if average differences existed in meat quality through the determination of ultimate pH, rapid pH decline, color, water holding capacity, and tenderness within each treatment and by pinpointing individual quality problems within treatments. Two trials were conducted and revealed greater variation in meat quality during summer in comparison to winter within treatments in both catching methods. In winter, there was a lower incidence (p<0.05) of paleness in birds that were crated for 2h prior to euthanasia in comparison to birds immediately euthanized after catching within both hand and machine catching methods. Mechanical catching and crating for 2 hours was conducive to slightly better quality meat than hand catching in respect to averages and individual quality problems.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19378

Comments

catching methods||broiler meat quality

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