Comparing Growth and Carcass Traits of Slow Growing Chicken Parents with Pure Egg Type Parents and Commercial Broilers

Özet

In this study, growth and carcass traits of slow growing parents were compared with commercial broilers and pure parents. Two egg type parents and a commercial meat parent were used in crossings. Male-female mixed 144 chickens per genotype were reared on litter in a house divided into 1.5 x 1.5 m pens. Live weight, carcass weight, carcass part ratios, abdominal fat and edible inner organ weights were determined in four dam and three sire line chickens. Colour as measured by L*, a*,b* values and pH were assessed in meat of thigh and breast. According to growth, feed efficiency, and carcass characteristics, crossbred chickens exhibited values between pure egg parents and broilers.