Goat meat production and quality /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Goats.; Goat meat.; Goat meat > Quality.; Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Meat Produce.; Food Composition and Quality.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Breeds.; Carcass composition.; Fatty acids.; Feeds.; Food marketing.; Genetics.; Meat.; Meat production.; Nutritive value.; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on the most important areas of goat meat production. It is divided into 15 chapters discussing the role of genetics, breeding, reproduction and nutrition in producing good quality, profitable goat meat. The mineral, amino acid and fatty acid composition of goat meat is also address...

Table of Contents:

• Preface / O. Mahgoub, I.T. Kadim and E.C. Webb
• Overview of the global meat goat sector / O. Mahgoub, I.T. Kadim and C.D. Lu
• Goat meat production systems / K.W. McMillin, E.C. Webb, E.F. Donkin and F. Pinkerton
• Carcass traits of hardy tropical goats / G. Alexandre and O. Mahgoub
• Genetics and breeding of meat goats / J.N.B. Shrestha
• Reproductive efficiency for increased meat production in goats / M. Rekik, I. Ben Salem and N. Lassoued
• Nutrition of the meat goat / J.R. Kawas, O. Mahgoub and C.D. Lu
• Growth, development and growth manipulation in goats / E.C. Webb, N.H. Casey and L. Simela
• The role of objective and subjective evaluation in the production and marketing of goats for meat / B.A. McGregor
• Tissue distribution in the goat carcass / O. Mahgoub, I.T. Kadim and E. Webb
• Influences of diets on fatty acid composition of edible tissues of meat goat / J.H. Lee and G. Kannan
• Mineral composition of goat meat / N.H.I. Osman and O. Mahgoub
• Linear body measurements and carcass characteristics of goats / I.T. Kadim and O. Mahgoub
• Nutritive value and quality characteristics of goat meat / I.T. Kadim and O. Mahgoub
• Effect of early nutrition on carcass and meat quality of young goats under milk production systems / Anastasio Argüello, N. Castro, D. Sánchez-Macías and J. Capote
• Effects of feeding system and diet on the body lipid composition of young goats / P. Morand-Fehr, A. Araba, P. Bas and A. El Aich.