RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND AGE ON GAME MEAT QUALITY.

The environmental conditions become more "civilized" during the time and implicit less favorable in general for the game. It came into sight some trace regarding the qualitative and also the quantitative regress of the products and sub products from this domain. The analysis of the causal relations of the determinant factors and of the game population dynamic during the years showed that the actual situation is a consequence of some complex releasers factors (biotic and atrophic factors). We named the following from these factors: the environmental conditions of the game (climate, relief, temperature, humidity, the shelter, and the quit of this), the specie, the age, the gender of the game, the game fatten, the feed supplement, the stress before slaughter, the type of the used arms, electrocution of the game or other methods witch the game became unconsciously. Another category of factors refers to the treatment conditions after slaughter, respectively: the time to disembowel the game, the removal of the males' testicles, "the cooling and the correct manipulation during transportation of the game carcass, and the adequate storage of these carcasses for aging. In this paper we present some of these factors: age and gender, which affect the game meat quality. In this paper we describe the influence of gender and the age on game meat quality. The results of the experiences showed that the male's carcasses have higher contents in muscular and osseous tissue, comparative to the female's carcasses. The female's carcasses have higher contents in fat and conjunctive tissue, comparative to male's carcasses. Also, these results point out that younger game have soft meat, comparative to the adult game meat [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]