The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Jul/2009
Rafael Silvio Bonilha Pinheiro, André Mendes Jorge, Hirasilva Borba Alves de Souza
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982009000700023
The objective of the experiment was to evaluate discarded ewes slaughtered at different physiological stages and terminated in feedlot for yields of carcass and cuts and the percentage of each non carcass component. Twenty-one Santa Inês ewes were used, with average age of six years old, distributed into the following treatments: EL = ewes that had remained in lactation for 60 days with their respective lambs until slaughtering; EWL = ewes that remained in lactation for 60 days with their […]
Keywords: discard females; dressing percentage; rib eye area; sheep