Table 4.

Chemical composition of goose meat as affected by age, genotype and sex

Age/genotype/sex			Moisture (%)	Crude fat (%)	Crude protein (%)	Crude ash (%)	Hyp (%)	Energy value (MJ/kg)
8 wk	Eskildsen Schwer	♂	75.95	2.02	20.62	1.14	0.10	4.21
		♀	75.32	2.62	20.59	1.16	0.10	4.44
	Czech Goose	♂	75.22	2.46	20.93	1.12	0.12	4.43
		♀	75.54	2.54	20.50	1.12	0.12	4.39
16 wk	Eskildsen Schwer	♂	74.29	3.94	20.51	1.10	0.11	4.91
		♀	74.54	3.66	20.54	1.12	0.10	4.81
	Czech Goose	♂	74.80	2.94	20.72	1.11	0.12	4.57
		♀	75.40	2.87	20.25	1.09	0.11	4.47
RMSE			0.46	0.45	0.32	0.04	0.01	0.16
Age			<0.001	<0.001	0.056	0.002	0.463	<0.001
Genotype			0.069	0.002	0.643	0.050	<0.001	0.003
Sex			0.251	0.459	0.006	0.761	0.103	0.908
Age×genotype			<0.001	<0.001	0.354	0.438	0.063	<0.001
Age×sex			0.016	0.025	0.941	0.566	0.150	0.020
Genotype×sex			0.007	0.496	0.006	0.169	0.213	0.101
Age×genotype×sex			0.194	0.109	0.776	0.438	0.766	0.111

Hyp, hydroxyproline; RMSE, root mean square error.