Estratégias de manejo de frangos de corte visando qualidade de carcaça e carne

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Ariel Antonio [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Komiyama, Claudia Marie [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.revista.sbz.org.br/artigo/index.php?artigo=66290; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141114
• topic: Slaughter; Condemnation; Contamination; Lesion; Pre-slaughter; Animal production; Abate; Condenação; Contaminação; Lesão; Pré-abate; Produção animal

Poultry production has increased advances in nutrition, management and health requirements allowing the birds to expose all their genetic potential for converting feed into meat. Thus, the concern about product quality is high nowadays. Factors affecting the product quality can mostly be controlled at various stages of management or during slaughter and processing. However, factors such as age at slaughter, sex, stocking rate, fasting time, catch birds, transportation, temperature, hanging, stunning, scalding and cooling affect the composition and meat quality. From this, the search for a quality product should be constant for the continued growth of the poultry industry. Thus, this article aims to point the strategies management that may affect carcass quality and broiler meat.