Table 4.
Content of muscles and fat in goose carcass.
| Item | Group1 |
SEM | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||
| Weight and proportion in carcass | ||||
| Breast muscles (g) | 625.15 | 626.53 | 17.39 | 0.970 |
| Breast muscles (%) | 14.38 | 14.33 | 0.38 | 0.957 |
| Leg muscles (g) | 500.96 | 463.98 | 11.80 | 0.120 |
| Leg muscles (%) | 11.52 | 10.61 | 0.26 | 0.083 |
| Total muscles (g) | 1,126.11 | 1,090.50 | 23.83 | 0.474 |
| Total muscles (%) | 25.90 | 24.95 | 0.52 | 0.375 |
| Skin with subcutaneous fat (g) | 1,139.68 | 1,184.41 | 25.99 | 0.408 |
| Skin with subcutaneous fat (%) | 26.18 | 27.09 | 0.52 | 0.403 |
| Abdominal fat (g) | 203.58 | 225.35 | 12.66 | 0.409 |
| Abdominal fat (%) | 4.66 | 5.16 | 0.28 | 0.401 |
| Total fat (g) | 1,343.25 | 1,409.76 | 35.39 | 0.365 |
| Total fat (%) | 20.71 | 22.07 | 0.55 | 0.228 |
10 geese were used in the quality analysis; each value represents the mean of 5 samples (2 geese/pen) from each group; no significant differences (P-value > 0.05).
1
Group 1 = soybean meal; Group 2 = feed based on yellow lupin.