. 2023 Feb 10;102(5):102571. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102571

Table 11.

Effect of strain¹ and target weight on meat quality attributes of female broilers.

Treatment	pH²	L*³	a*³	b*³	Drip loss %	Thaw loss %	Cook loss %	Total loss %⁴
Strain	pH²	L*³	a*³	b*³	Drip loss %	Thaw loss %	Cook loss %	Total loss %⁴
SYA	5.89	57.12^a	2.40	10.10^ab	0.96	7.51	23.26	30.30
SYB	5.89	55.78^b	2.72	9.70^b	1.29	7.49	21.85	29.09
HYA	5.90	56.55^ab	2.57	9.80^b	1.21	7.93	22.84	30.11
HYB	5.86	56.47^ab	2.48	10.48^a	1.10	8.16	22.81	31.04
SEM	0.01	0.29	0.09	0.14	0.09	0.25	0.59	0.57
Target weight (g)
2,043	5.92^a	55.39^c	2.31^b	9.12^d	1.44^a	8.02^b	23.71^ab	31.73^b
2,497	5.89^a	56.05^bc	2.38^b	9.61^cd	1.36^a	10.34^a	25.78^a	34.61^a
2,951	5.94^a	56.61^abc	2.54^b	9.94^bc	1.25^ab	10.59^a	21.92^bc	32.58^ab
3,405	5.94^a	56.75^ab	2.46^b	10.53^ab	0.93^bc	4.80^c	21.56^bc	26.31^c
4,313	5.73^b	57.58^a	2.99^a	10.91^a	0.72^c	5.10^c	20.24^c	25.44^c
SEM	0.02	0.32	0.10	0.16	0.10	0.27	0.67	0.64
P-values
Strain	0.1012	0.0207	0.0629	0.0019	0.0603	0.1717	0.2519	0.1299
Target weight	<0.0001	0.0004	0.0003	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0002	<0.0001
Interaction	0.1934	0.3405	0.1666	0.5759	0.9631	0.0898	0.5718	0.1008

Abbreviations: HYA, high yielding A, HYB, high yielding B; SYA, standard yielding A, SYB, standard yielding B.

pH was collected 24 h postmortem.

Color measurements were collected 24 h postmortem on the dorsal side of the fillet.

⁴

Total loss was determined as the combination of cook and thaw loss.

^a-d

Means without a common superscript were determined to be significantly different (P < 0.05) by a Tukey's HSD test.