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Incidence of Breast Muscles Abnormalities in Chicken Broiler

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Food Control and hygiene

Abstract

During the last 60 years the size of the breast muscle was increased through the improvements in the growth rate and yield of the chicken broilers. By introducing different genetic selection and application with improvement of chicken nutrition and management led finally to serious breast meat abnormalities that influenced their quality and left a negative impact on broiler meat sector. The most prevalent abnormalities include Deep Pectoral Muscle myopathy (DPM) green muscle disease or Oregon disease, White Striping (WS), and Woody Breast (WB). Every year an extensive research all over the world on the real causes of breast muscles condemnation was conducted in order to reduce both breast muscles abnormalities and financial losses. Therefore this study was conducted by inspection of 3.720.000   chicken broiler carcasses at North Delta abattoir, Egypt during chicken processing the incidence of Green Muscle (with their three stages), white Strips and Wooden Breast were 20280 (0.5% ) , 1248 (0.03%)  and 1872 (0.05%) respectively. The total economic loss during 2019 for green muscle abnormality according to the Egyptian salary was 124800 L.E., for WS and WB were 31200 and 48800 L.E respectively.

DOI

10.21608/scvmj.2021.184753

Keywords

Green muscle (DPM), white striping (WS), woody breast (WB)

Authors

First Name

Hosny

Last Name

Abdelrahman

MiddleName

abdellatief

Affiliation

Food hygiene department,faculty of veterinary medicine ,Suez canal university

Email

hrahman69@yahoo.com

City

Ismaillia

Orcid

0000-0002-3232-9367

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Hamza

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Veterinarian Postgraduate student

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City

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Orcid

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First Name

Nashwa

Last Name

Ismail

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Animal Research Institute, Ismailia Egypt

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Volume

26

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

21781

Issue Date

2021-06-01

Receive Date

2021-03-07

Publish Date

2021-07-01

Page Start

79

Page End

90

Print ISSN

1110-6298

Online ISSN

2682-3284

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https://scvmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_184753.html

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992

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Journal

Publication Title

Suez Canal Veterinary Medical Journal. SCVMJ

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https://scvmj.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Incidence of Breast Muscles Abnormalities in Chicken Broiler

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023