Research note: differential heterosis of spent laying hens' carcass characteristics and meat quality in reciprocal crosses between White Leghorn and Beijing-You chickens

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第一作者： Yang, Hanhan

作者： Yang, Hanhan;Ni, Aixin;Li, Yunlei;Yuan, Jingwei;Ma, Hui;Zong, Yunhe;Han, Xintong;Chen, Jilan;Sun, Yanyan;Wu, Yan

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关键词： heterosis; spent hen; reciprocal cross; carcass characteristics; meat quality

期刊名称：POULTRY SCIENCE （ 影响因子：4.2； 五年影响因子：4.5 ）

ISSN： 0032-5791

年卷期： 2024 年 103 卷 11 期

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摘要： Hybridization is used extensively in commercial layer production. However, heterosis for carcass performance and meat quality of spent laying hens remains unclear, especially under the trend of extended laying cycles. In this study, indigenous Beijing-You chickens (Y) and elite White Leghorn layers (W) were selected to generate purebreds (WW and YY) and reciprocal crosses (WY and YW). Data on traits including carcass compositions, meat quality, and main nutrients for breast muscle were collected when chickens were fed to 100 wk of age. Results showed that body weight (BW) and dressed weight for WY and YW with positive heterosis were significantly higher than WW (P P < 0.05). YW had the heaviest breast and thigh of 232.28 g and 278.48 g, respectively. The abdominal fat weight for WY and YW were greatly higher than that for WW (P P > 0.05). The yields of carcass compositions, including the dressed yield, half eviscerated yield, eviscerated yield, breast yield and thigh yield, did not differ among the four genetic groups (P P > 0.05), except for the yield of abdominal fat. The largest heterosis differences appeared in breast weight (12.26% in YW vs.-0.46% in WY) and abdominal fat yield (15.26% in YW vs. 24.55% in WY). Although BW for crossbreds were similar, the specific parts of the carcass between them were different. For meat quality, WY had negative heterosis (P P < 0.05) with the lowest lightness and yellowness, whereas YW had the completely opposite trend. Neither pH1h 1h nor pH 24h values had differences among purebreds and reciprocal crossbreds (P P > 0.05). The drip loss and cooking loss were 4.01%-4.77% and 15.59%-21.31% respectively among the four genetic groups. The main nutrients of breast, including moisture, crude protein, intramuscular fat and unsaturated fatty acid, did not differ for purebreds and crossbreds (P P > 0.05), except for saturated fatty acid. In general, the crossbreds even at the later laying period still showed divergent heterosis on carcass performance and meat characteristics. In view of the heterosis, Beijing-You chickens can be used as the sire line in the crossbreeding to improve carcass compositions of spent hens.

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