Table 1.

Compression force measured at 24 h PM on raw unaffected (NORM) and wooden breast (WB) affected Pectoralis major muscle, evaluated within muscle condition according to the deboning time effect.

Deboning time	Compression force (N)
	NORM	WB
15 min	18.53	35.35a,b
3 h	20.48	30.94b
6 h	21.06	48.03a
24 h	19.04	30.56b
SEM	1.56	3.50
P-value	NS	<0.05

Means within the same column followed by different lowercase superscript letters differ P < 0.05.