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Impact of piglet birth weight and birth order on subsequent growout performance, carcass quality, muscle composition and eating quality of pork
Posted in: Meat Quality, Pork Insight Articles, Prairie Swine Centre by admin on July 31, 2017
This study wanted to answer the questions of:
Does reduced birth weight result In changes In muscle fibre number and/or type?
Does reduced birth weight affect the eating quality of pork?
Conclusion
• As litter size increased, average birth weight decreased
• The variability in birth weight within a litter was unaffected by litter size
• Weaning weight, and weight at 5 and 7 wks post-weaning were unaffected by litter
size
•Carcass quality was consistent across all groups