Table 1.
Individual slaughtering performance of M3 partridge hens with high and low breast muscle rates.
| Slaughter Traits | Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-1 | High-2 | High-3 | High-4 | Low-1 | Low-2 | Low-3 | Low-4 | |
| EW (g) | 966 | 946 | 949 | 974 | 951 | 980 | 954 | 972 |
| BMW (g) | 165.58 | 163.28 | 164.05 | 168.82 | 134.99 | 140.77 | 135.33 | 138.64 |
| BMP (%) | 17.14 | 17.26 | 17.29 | 17.33 | 14.19 | 14.36 | 14.19 | 14.26 |
High = high breast muscle rate group; Low = low breast muscle rate group; EW = evisceration weight; BMW = breast muscle weight; BMP = breast muscle percentage.