Indicators of slaughter and chemical composition of meat of commercial young meat poultry depending on live weight at daily age

Abstract

The article presents the indicators of slaughter and the chemical composition of the industrial poultry flock of the meat direction of productivity in different age periods, depending on the body weight of the bird at the daily age. A general trend of a slight positive effect of the gradation of chicks by live weight at day old on the indicators of slaughter and the chemical composition of meat was revealed. It has been established that more valuable components of the carcass (breast, drumstick, thigh, wing) are obtained from birds with a higher weight at the day-old age. Indices of the chemical composition of the components of the carcass by groups in most cases did not differ significantly, with the exception of the content of phosphorus and iron.