This research was developed to evaluate the intake and digestibility of nutrients; feed/gain conversion (FC); average daily live weight (LWG), empty body weight (EBWG) and carcass (CG) gains; the carcass dressing percentage and the basic cuts percentage; the carcass length (CL); the loin eye area (LEA) and the subcutaneous fat thickness (SFT) of Zebu steers, with initial average live weigth of 270 kg, fed with 5, 35 e 65% of concentrate, in feedlot. The dry matter and organic matter intake […]

The objective of the experiment was to study the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of carcass and meat of steers of four genetic groups, Charolais (C), Nellore (N), crossbreds with predominance of C (3/4 C 1/4 N and 5/8 C 3/8 N – CRC) and crossbreds with predominance of N (3/4 N 1/4 C and 5/8 N 3/8 C – CRN), submitted to four feed treatments during the feedlot finishing phase, which were the following levels of substitution of sorghum grain […]

This study offers information on the morphology (in live and in carcass), commercial characteristics, components of the liveweight, quality of the carcass and meat in no castrated lambs derived from the crossing between Border Leicester rams and Corriedale and Polwarth ewes, grazing on native pasture in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Twenty-four lambs slaughtered at 6.5 months of age were used, from which 11 were from Border Leicester rams x Corriedale ewes and 13 were from Border Leicester rams x […]

Twenty-one lambs of the Santa Ines and Bergamacia breeds were confined by a period of 75 days and fed diets containing 24% of swine wastes, in biju form (obtained by the scratching and sweeping of the floor of the growth stalls and termination) or dry sifted wastes – DSW (obtained through the sifting of the solid part of the material contained in the sheet of water and in the water of the wash of the stalls). The animals were slaughtered […]