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Carcass and meat quality traits of four different pig crosses.
Meat science - 1 Mar 2012
Ruusunen Marita, Puolanne Eero, Sevon-Aimonen Marja-Liisa, Partanen Kirsi, Voutila Liisa, Niemi Jarkko
Abstract excerpt
The study compared properties of Finnish Landrace×Yorkshire crossbred sows mated with Finnish Landrace (FL), Norwegian Landrace (NL), Norwegian Duroc×Norwegian Landrace (NDL), or Swedish Hampshire (SH) boars. The focus was to study the cross-sectional area of loin, cross-sectional area and number of muscle fibres, loin colour and pH value as well as the ratio of water to protein in the loin. The four studied...
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