Assessment of carcass performance and meat quality of crossbred pigs resulted from crossbred PiDu (Pietrain x Duroc) boars and Landrace (L), Yorkshire (Y) or F1 (L x Y) sows

Abstract

A study was carried out at 3 pig farms in Trang Viet commune (Me Linh, Vinh Phuc) in 2008 to evaluate carcass performance and meat quality of 3 crossbred PiDuÍY, PiDuÍL and PiDuÍF1(LY). Results showed that their dressing and lean meat percentages were high (71.37 and 56.21%; 71.55 and 56.88%; 71.60 and 56.51%, respectively) and high meat quality in terms of drip loss, colour of meat, pH₄₅ and pH₂₄. It was therefore suggested to use crossbred boars of PiDu to mate with Yorkshire, Landrace or F1(LY) sowsto obtain high carcass performance and meat quality