Authors: Sogunle O.M., Egbeyale L.T., Alajo, O.A., Adeleye, O.O., Fafiolu A.O., Onunkwor O.B., Adegbite J.A., Fanimo, A.O.
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Abstract
This study was designed to compare chemical composition and quality of carcass parts of 99
broiler chickens of Arbor acre and Marshal MY strains, respectively at the Teaching and Research
Farm, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. At the 561h day of the experiment, 6 birds per
replicate were slaughtered after euthanization for carcass analysis and evaluation. The meat
samples from the breast and thigh muscles were analyzed for proximate composition. The data
obtained were subjected to a t-test at 5% significant level. The results on the proximate composition
(p<0.05) of the muscles showed that values obtained for the thigh gross energy (2.11 kcal/g),
thigh dry matter (28.73%), thigh fibre diameter (5.24 mm), thigh fat (8.08%), breast dry matter
(29.88%) and breast fibre diameter (5.54 mm) were higher in Marshal MY strain. Hence, it was
concluded that meat quality is a function of genotype and environmental factor.