AAB Archives Animal Breeding AAB Arch. Anim. Breed. 2363-9822 FBN Dummerstorf Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/aab-54-198-2011 An effect on basic meat quality attributes of a balanced feed mixture with a 10 % share of flaxseed applied in goat kid feeding Pieniak-Lendzion K. 1 Niedziółka R. 1 Horoszewicz E. 1 Łukasiewicz M. 1 Department of Sheep and Goat Breeding, University of Podlasie in Siedlce, Poland 10 10 2011 54 2 198 204 Copyright: © 2011 K. Pieniak-Lendzion et al. 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://aab.copernicus.org/articles/54/198/2011/aab-54-198-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://aab.copernicus.org/articles/54/198/2011/aab-54-198-2011.pdf

The objective of the study was to analyse the slaughter value and physico-chemical properties of goat kids slaughtered at 150 days of age. After weaning, at 60 days of age a balanced feed mixture with a 10 % share of flaxseed was applied in feeding. <br><br> There was found a significant (<i>P</i>≤0.05) increase in slaughter performance (45.80 %) and primal cuts (leg, saddle joint) obtained in the experimental group. There was also found significantly (<i>P</i>≤0.05) less (by 1 %) fat in the carcass of the aforementioned group. In contrast, a percentage share of meat in the leg (70.60 %) and the carcass (60.71 %) was statistically insignificant although it was slightly higher in the experimental group. <br><br> The meat of male kids fed flaxseed was darker, (L* 42.60) at <i>P</i>≤0.01, and contained more (<i>P</i>≤0.01) dry matter (24.32 %) and protein (20.97 %) but less (<i>P</i>≤0.05) fat (1.92 %). The sensory assessment revealed similar cooking usefulness of goat kid meat and no statistically significant differences between the groups studied.