Articles | Volume 59, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-59-319-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-59-319-2016
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12 Jul 2016
Original study |  | 12 Jul 2016

Difference in fatty acid composition and related nutritional indices of meat between two lines of slow-growing chickens slaughtered at different ages

Teodora Popova, Maya Ignatova, Evgeni Petkov, and Nikola Stanišić

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Fatty acids and nutritional indices in meat were studied in La Belle and White Plymouth Rock birds at 9 and 18 weeks of age. The study is the first in Bulgaria to assess the potential of lines of the national gene pool to produce slow-growing chickens with a high quality of meat in regard to its lipid profile, affected by line and age of the birds. Total monounsaturated fatty acids decreased, but polyunsaturated acids increased with age, leading to beneficial changes in the nutritional indices.