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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Abstract

Improving meat quality is one of the most important aims for scientists and breeders. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of housing system (indoor vs. free-range) and gender on carcass and meat quality traits in Pekin ducks. The animal material consisted of 20 male and 20 female birds in each housing system. Our results show cold carcass weights of 3174.10 ± 80.65 g and 2672.60 ± 59.63 g for male and female birds in the indoor housing system and 2821.10 ± 50.53 g and 2306.90 ± 43.32 g for male and female birds in the free-range housing system. The gender and housing system interaction effect was statistically significant (p < 0.05) only for the chroma value in the pectoralis major (PM) muscle. There was no housing system or gender effect on the other traits (p > 0.05). The PM muscle showed greater within-group variance than the gastrocnemius muscle. The canonical correlation analysis showed that relationships among meat quality parameter clusters can serve as a trait for breeding strategies in Pekin ducks.

Author ORCID Identifier

HASAN ÖNDER: 0000-0002-8404-8700

UĞUR ŞEN: 0000-0001-6058-1140

MİNE YILMAZ: 0000-0001-5528-2330

SİBEL BOZKURT: 0000-0002-9995-0027

ELİF CİLAVDAROĞLU: 0000-0002-8258-2416

DİLEK GÖKÇEK: 0000-0001-8721-3380

AHMET UÇAR: 0000-0002-0640-3965

KADİR ERENSOY: 0000-0002-7479-6203

BURCU KURNAZ: 0000-0001-5613-6992

DOI

10.55730/1300-0128.4412

Keywords

Pekin duck, meat quality, carcass traits, gender effect, pectoralis major muscle, gastrocnemius muscle

First Page

69

Last Page

78

Publisher

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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