Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIII, Issue 2
Written by Cornel Octavian PANĂ, Lucian IONIȚĂ, Elena POPESCU-MICLOȘANU, Ioan CUSTURĂ, Minodora TUDORACHE
The purpose of the research was to determine comparatively the results of slaughter separately by sex, in the case of two populations of quails (meat and mixed), at the age of 6 weeks. The average weight of the eviscerated carcass for meat quails was 205.00 ± 8.82 g/head in females, while in mixed eggs-meat female quails it was 135.20 ± 3.29 g/head (34.05% higher as in females in the mixed population) and 173.80 ± 6.37 g/head in males of the meat population (26.24% higher than in males of the mixed population, 128.20 ± 3.98 g/head). Studied Jumbo meat quails can be used with good results in meat production, chickens being raised for meat production, while quails from the Baloteşti mixed egg population can also be used in the direction of meat production, if desired of smaller carcasses compared to those of meat quails. For both populations, the breeding for meat is conditioned by a high performing breeding lot and without directing the females to egg production.
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