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The effect of cage density and meat storage period on some meat quality parameters in brown and white spent hens

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Uğur Özentürk 1
Ayşe Uysal 1
Ekrem Laçin 1
Soner Uysal 2
Sevda Urçar Gelen 3
Hayrunnisa Özlü 4

1 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Atatürk, Erzurum, Türkiye

2 Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Türkiye

3 Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Atatürk, Erzurum, Türkiye

4 Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, University of Atatürk, Erzurum, Türkiye

https://doi.org/10.30466/vrf.2024.2025425.4210
Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the effect of different cage densities and meat storage periods on some meat quality parameters in drumstick and breast meat of brown and white spent hens. The study used three different cage densities as low (5 hens per cage), normal (seven hens per cage) and high (10 hens per cage) including 396 hens as 198 Hy-Line Brown (HB) and 198 Isa Tinted (IT). The feeding of chickens was ad libitum (20 - 60 weeks). At the end of the study, a total number of 54 chickens (27 HB and 27 IT) were slaughtered. Some chemical and microbiological analyses were carried out by separating the drumstick and breast area of the slaughtered chickens. According to the results of the research, the redness and yellowness values of the breast area were higher in the ITs. The effect of cage density was significant only for yellowness in the drumstick area. The effects of storage time, lightness and yellowness in the drumstick area and lightness value in the breast area were found to be significant. Bacterial density and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances values of both breast and drumstick regions of spent hens were higher in HBs, while pH values were higher in ITs. The bacterial density in the meat was increased during the storage period. In conclusion, cage density, genotype and storage time affected the microbiological and chemical quality of spent chicken meat. With this result, it can be said that meat quality studies, which mostly focus on broilers, are also important in spent hens.

Keywords

Breast
Cage density
Genotype
Meat quality
Poultry

Subjects

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Veterinary Research Forum
Volume 16, Issue 2
February 2025
Pages 71-79

  • Receive Date 04 April 2024
  • Revise Date 12 August 2024
  • Accept Date 14 August 2024

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