caa a22 4500 388060816 CHVBK 20180307125120.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1357729800009590 doi S1357729800009590 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1357729800009590 Meat and carcass quality in two pig lines of different stress-susceptibility genotype and their crosses [Elektronische Daten] In order to investigate differences in carcass and meat quality between lines of different stress susceptibility, 150 pigs were slaughtered on 15 slaughter days, consisting of equal numbers of stress-susceptible (nn) pigs of a boar line, stress-resistant (NN) pigs of a sow line and stress-carrier (Nn) crosses of these two lines. Carcass quality was determined by a SKGII-device which combined four physical measurements into a carcass lean estimate and a conformation score, and meat quality traits were measured on the carcass and on a loin slice. Killing-out proportion was lower for the NN line compared with the Nn crosses and the nn line. Lean content increased and conformation score improved as the number of n alleles in the respective genotypes increased but the Nn genotype was closer to the nn genotype than to the NNgenotype. Similarly, a large difference in meat quality was found between the NN and the nn line, whereas the difference in meat quality between the Nn and the nn genotype was smaller than expected. This was probably due to the low-voltage stunning procedure. In addition, the method of transporting the pigs to the abattoir (by truck or by foot, for a distance 125 m) had a pronounced effect on meat quality in the loin. Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1998 carcass quality nationallicence meat quality nationallicence pigs nationallicence stress nationallicence de Smet S. Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Dierlijke Productie, Proefhoevestraat 10, 9090 Melle, Belgium Bloemen H. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratorium voor Agrarische Bouwkunde, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium van de Voorde G. Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Dierlijke Productie, Proefhoevestraat 10, 9090 Melle, Belgium Spincemaille G. Seghers Hybrid NV, Kapellebaan 45, 9255 Buggenhout, Belgium Berckmans D. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratorium voor Agrarische Bouwkunde, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium Animal Science Cambridge University Press 66/2(1998-04), 441-447 1357-7298 66:2<441 1998 66 ASC https://doi.org/10.1017/S1357729800009590 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1357729800009590 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Smet S. Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Dierlijke Productie, Proefhoevestraat 10, 9090 Melle, Belgium NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bloemen H. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratorium voor Agrarische Bouwkunde, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van de Voorde G. Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Dierlijke Productie, Proefhoevestraat 10, 9090 Melle, Belgium NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spincemaille G. Seghers Hybrid NV, Kapellebaan 45, 9255 Buggenhout, Belgium NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berckmans D. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratorium voor Agrarische Bouwkunde, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Science Cambridge University Press 66/2(1998-04), 441-447 1357-7298 66:2<441 1998 66 ASC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge