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-Technology
ESTIMATING CARCASS COMPOSITION OF DUCKS
P. DELPECH Miroslava MILOVANOVIC Chaire de
Zootechnie,
7. N.
A., Paris-Grignon
78850 Thiverval
* Chaire de Zootechnie Faculté
d’Agronomie
Novi Sad
(Yougoslavie)
Carcass
composition
of ducks has been studiedaccording
to the method of RICARDet Rou-VIER
( 19 6 7 ),
on3 8
drawn carcasses(birds
were bled,plucked
and evisceratedby evagination
of
cloaca)
of male and femaleMuscovy,
Pekin and different breeds of crossbred ducks and Mallard X Commun crossbred ducks.Proportion
of breast ishighest
forMuscovy
ducks. Butrelationships
between totalweight
of carcass and
weight
ofbreast,
between totalweight
of carcass andweights
of the differenttissues in the
leg,
are rectilinear.Size of breast may be
predicted
from width of kell(r
= +0 .86). Weight
of inner fat isclosely
and
linearly
related to circumference of Parson’s nose(r
= -+-0 . 7 8).
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION AND THE
QUALITY
OF PRESENTATION OF THE BROILERG. de BARBUAT Institut
technique
del’Aviculture, Département
Zootechnie etTechnologie,
28,
Rue du Rocher, 75008 ParisA
study
was made to determine the main factors of alteration in thepresentation
of broilercarcasses in order to find the cause