RESEARCH ARTICLES
INFLUENCE OF AGE SEX ON PROCESSING AND CUT-UP YIELDS OF JAPANESE QUAIL
D. Narahari, R. Prabhakaran, M. Babu, I. Alfred jaya Prasad and A. Thangavel
Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.1987. 18:15-19.
Copyright: © 1987 D. Narahari et.al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A study was carried out on 120 Japanese quails to assess the influence of age and sex on their processing and cut-up yields. Ten males and ten females were subjected to slaughter studies at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 weeks of age to collect necessary data. The feather weight loss was tended to decrease as age advanced. The fasting shrinkage, blood loss, New York dressed weight, ready-to-cook weight and various cut-up parts yields were found to be independent of age and sex of the quail.
