Quality of aborigenous karachay goat meat under different conditions
Authors
Selionova, Marina I.Mamontova, Tatyana V.
Aybazov, Аli-Мagomet М.
Caro Petrović, Violeta

Petrovic, Milan P.
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In this study, the influence of different conditions of keeping
and feeding on meat productivity and meat quality of indigenous Karachai goats
kept in different geographical regions of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic was
assessed. The experiment involved three populations of Karachai goats: Group I
was kept at an altitude of 500-600 meters above sea level, II - 900-1000, III - 1600-
2000 meters above sea level. There were no significant differences in slaughter
indicators (P≥0.05). However, there was a tendency to a decrease in the preslaughter
weight, the area of the muscle eye in carcasses obtained from goats of the
foothill and mountain zones (on average by 5.15% and 5.55%), the meat content
coefficient from the foothill zone (7.3%) and several a greater proportion of bones
in the carcasses of goats in the foothill and mountain zones (on average by 3.9%).
Morphological cutting of carcasses showed the predominance of muscle tissue over
bone - 76.8% versus 23.2%. The data o...f microstructural analysis of the longest
muscle of the back of Karachai goats showed a large number of muscle fibers (on
average 404.5 pieces per 1 mm2 with their small diameter (on average 26.3
microns). Based on the assessment, it is concluded that the higher the height above
the level the sea of the animal habitat, the lower the meat productivity and the
lower the fat content in the
meat.
Keywords:
goat; / goat meat; / meat quality; / chemical compositionSource:
Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium Modern Trends in Livestock Production October 6 – 8, 2021, Belgrade, Serbia, 2021, 117-125Publisher:
- Institute for Animal Husbandry Belgrade Zemun
Funding / projects:
- The research was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-76-20006).
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, Grant no. 200022 (Institute for Animal Husbandry, Belgrade-Zemun) (RS-200022)