Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIV, Issue 1
Written by Nikolay MARKOV, Svetoslava STOYCHEVA, Tsvetomira BANCHEVA, Tsvetelina DIMITROVA
The changes made in the composition and structure of beef cattle breeding in Bulgaria, impose along with research in the field of nutrition, technology and meat productivity to study the skin as a raw material for various branches of light industry. The relative weight, the percentage of the living mass of skin, the sizes, the thickness of skin in different areas were studied and skin area in fattened male Simmental, Limousine, Hereford and Aberdeen Angus calves slaughtered at 15 months of age. There are significant differences in the studied quality indicators of raw skin. The highest is the relative weight of the raw skin of calves of the Simmental breed, which showed the heaviest 38.9 kg and thick skin-6.94 mm at point “O” and 6.71mm at point “H”.
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