Private company
- Main info
Suisag testing station
Sempach, switzerland
- General info
Institute: Private company
Institution type: Public & private
Funding: H2020- research infrastructures
Type of Facility: Body composition, carcass & meet quality, field experiments, pig performance testing station (mlp), animal health
Type of housing: Experimental pig farm, pig housing
External events: Yes (prior agreement needed)
- Livestock info
Livestock type: Pigs
Number of livestock: 1500 no of pigs and additional 95000 no of sows and 592000 no of pigs at different sites
- Resources & Technologies
Meat lab, pig health service (sgd), feeding experiments, routine measurements : ph measurement at 90 min p.m. and 24 h p.m. (ph-star, matthäus gmbh & co.) in m. long. dorsi (ld) and m. semimembranosus.
- colour measurement (minolta chromameter cm2500d) in ld
- intramuscular fat content (nirs, calibrated with soxtec petroleum extraction)
- drip loss (bag method, 48h)
- cooking loss (e.g., sous-vide water bath 72°c)
- warner-bratzler shear force measurement
- fatty acid type composition in pork back fat (nirs: sfa, mufa, pufa, iodine value), suissano additional program
Conducting behavioural analyses, additional measurements that can be conducted:
- crude protein (dumas method)
- intramuscular fat content (crude fat, soxtec petroleum extraction)
- fat quality, scratch samples (nirs: pufa, iodine value analogous to the determination of fat quality in pigs commonly used in switzerland)
- fatty acid profile in adipose tissue (gc-fid; proportion of individual fatty acid incl. omega-6 and omega-3)
- oxidation stability (induction time, rancimat)
Boar rearing station
- Infrastructures
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