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Early Diagnosis of the Meat Color of Veal

Centre De Recherches Zootechniques et Vétérinaires. I.N.R.A.

Abstract

These experiments largely confirm data obtained previously concerning the significant relation between the intensity of muscle pigmentation of the veal calf exclusively milk-fed and the hematocrit value at 8 days of age. Furthermore, pointing out a high correlation coefficient between the blood density and hematocrit demonstrated that, practically, the determination of blood density by the method of Philips and Van Slyke is a useful method to diagnose, with relatively little uncertainty, the veal calf aptitude to produce light or dark colored meat.

¹ The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of J. Saheb, postgraduate fellow who computed the data and translated this paper.

² Station de Recherches sur la Viande, Domaine de Theix, 63-Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France.

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