Body composition during growth determined non-destructively with computed tomography, carcass and meat quality of pigs from four sexual types.

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Productive data and data from body composition of pigs of 4 sexual types (entire male, surgically castrated males, immunocastrated males and entire females) obtained at four different moments during growth (30, 70, 100 and 120 kg target body weight-TBW) is presented. Moreover, a subsample of pigs at 30, 70 and 100 kg and all those of 120 kg TBW were slaughtered. Productive parameters of pigs slaughtered at 120 kg were also included. Carcass characteristics (weight and several fat thicknesses and lengths) were determined. Also the weight of the viscera and organs were recorded. Moreover meat quality parameters were obtained (pH at 45 minutes and at 24 h post mortem, electrical conductivity, marbling and colour). Carcasses were cut following the EU reference cutting and cuts weighed. For all the carcasses subcutaneous fat (with skin) of the ham and loin cuts was separated and weighed. Also the weight of the biceps femoris, semimembranosus and gluteus medius of the ham was recorded as well as the weight of the longissimus muscle of the loin. Additionally, those at 70 and 120 kg TBW had shoulder subcutaneous fat (with skin) weighed. Finally, a subsample of 8 carcasses of 120 kg TBW pigs had the 4 main cuts dissected. At each target BW live pigs were CT scanned, thus the volume associated with each Hounsfield value is available. Moreover from CT images at specific anatomical location, several measures (area, thickness, etc.) were obtained in order to characterize the body composition. This information can be used to obtain growth curves for the different tissues and cuts a and to understand tissue deposition at different growth stages, either for all the animals globally or to see differences between sexes. All this data has been used in several papers but it can be reused and reanalysed using other methodologies and with a different purpose.

Funding Agency: Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA). ROR: https://ror.org/011q66e29

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34810/data2797
Related Identifier IsReferencedBy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108909
Related Identifier IsReferencedBy https://doi.org/10.2527/jas.2014-8697
Related Identifier IsReferencedBy https://doi.org/10.1017/s1751731117000039
Metadata Access https://dataverse.csuc.cat/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34810/data2797
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Creator Font i Furnols, Maria ORCID logo
Publisher CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
Contributor Font i Furnols, Maria; Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Agencia Estatal de Investigación https://ror.org/003x0zc53
Rights CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Font i Furnols, Maria (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries)
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Discipline Agricultural Sciences; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences