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A comparison of tissue development in Pietrain and Large White pigs from birth to 64 kg live weight 1. Growth changes in carcass composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

A. S. Davies
A. S. Davies
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Department of Anatomy, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH
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Female pigs of the Pietrain and Large White breeds, 18 from each, selected to form a logarithmic weight range, were dissected into their major carcass tissues. Relative to carcass growth, fat was the fastest developing tissue in both breeds; fat and muscle grew at a rate higher, and bone at a rate lower, than the carcass. The growth of bone relative to carcass growth was faster in the Large White; differences between breeds in the growth of muscle and fat were not significant. Muscle weights and muscle: bone ratios, estimated at the same empty body weight, were greater for the Pietrain over the entire body weight range studied. There was no significant difference in muscle: bone ratio between the Large Whites used in the present study and those dissected by McMeekan over 30 years previously. The breed difference in the proportion of muscle and bone at the same body weight is attributed to a greater maturity of the Pietrain.

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Animal Production , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , December 1974 , pp. 367 - 376
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1974

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