5. Conc
lusion
In conclusion, all the connective tissue
fibers
observed in
the
all
intramuscular connective
tissues of
both red and white muscles of
the
native
chickens
.
With the exception of
endomysium,
the other
intramuscular
connective tissues
layers varied bet
ween leg
and breast muscles and affected by sex
.
Unlike other bird's species, tenderness in the
leg muscle was higher than the breast muscle
in native chickens, as well as in males
than
females.
The difference in tenderness in
different muscles was not related to the
different elastic fibers of intramuscular
connective tissues
.