RT Journal Article
T1 Carcase and meat quality of Blanca Andaluza kids fed exclusively with milk from their dams under organic and conventional grazing-based management systems
A1 Guzmán Guerrero, José Luis
A1 Vega, Francisco de la
A1 Zarazaga Garcés, Luis Ángel
A1 Argüello, Anastasio
A1 Delgado Pertiñez, Manuel
AB The number of organic farms is growing, but switching from conventional to organic productionrequires farms continue to produce high quality products. This study compares the carcase andmeat quality of Blanca Andaluza goat suckling kids raised under organic and conventional grazing-based stock raising production systems. Twenty-four twin kids (12 males, 12 females) wereselected from representative farms of each system. Body weight, dressing percentage, carcaselinear measurements, non-carcase components, primary carcase and minor cuts, tissue composition,chemical composition and rheological variables, pH and colorimetric variables, wereexamined. No significant differences were seen between the production systems or sex withrespect to most of the variables studied. However, some non-carcase components and colorimetricvariables were affected, with the organic kids’ meat returning lower values for lightness,yellow index, chroma and Hue angle. Indeed, some of the meat colour variables examined easilydiscriminated between the animals raised under the different production systems. These resultsshow that conventional grazing–based farms raising these goats could easily turn to organicproduction without carcase or meat quality being affected.
PB PAGEpress
SN 1594-4077
YR 2019
FD 2019-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16678
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16678
LA eng
NO Guzmán, J. L., De la Vega, F., Angel Zarazaga, L., Argüello, A.,  Delgado Pertíñez, M. (2019). Carcase and meat quality of Blanca Andaluza kids fed exclusively with milk from their dams under organic and conventional grazing-based management systems. Italian Journal of Animal Science, 18(1), 1186–1191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1828051x.2019.1638317
NO This work was supported by the Andalusian Institute for Research and Training in Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Ecological Production (IFAPA), Andalusian Regional Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucia (Regional Government) under Grant Project No 75, 92162/1
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026