The experiment was done at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Animal Science Department Ovinoculture Sector, it had the was carried out to study the relative bone growth, muscle and adiposity of the neck, shoulder-blade, rib and leg of carcass of the lambs. It was used 45 lambs (Texel), 22 non-castrated male and 23 females. From that group, seven were slaughtered in the beginning of the experiment and the other ones when they reached 25 or 33 kg. Sheep and […]

The carcass physical composition, meat quality and cholesterol content in the Longissimus dorsi muscle of 24 Red Angus steers finished in feedlot with different weights were evaluated. Steers average age and weight at the beginning of the feedlot were, respectively, eight months and 189 kg. The number of days on feed was 114, 144, 173 and 213 days to reach the slaughter weight (PA) of 340, 373, 400.6 or 433.6 kg. The carcass composition was affected by the slaugther weight, […]

The work was conducted with the objective to study the allometric growth of the bone, muscular and fat tissues in the left side of growing lamb carcasses. Thirty-six, twenty-four Santa Ines and twelve Bergamacia lambs were used. The animals were kept in individual pens and fed ad libitum diets. The slaughtering was done when the animals reached the live weight of 15, 25, 35 and 45 kg. The amount of the different tissues was obtained through the dissection of the […]

The effect of slaughter age on non-carcass components and carcass characteristics was evaluated in 35 Suffolk lambs slaughtered at average age of 90, 130 or 170 days, fed corn silage and concentrate (19.6% CP). As the slaughter age increased, animal live weight and carcass weight linearly increased, and some non-carcass components as blood, head, legs and full viscera percentage linearly decreased, leading to a linear increase in carcass yield. As the slaughter age increase, it was observed change in the […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different dietary levels of concentrate on the carcass physical composition. Thirty two pure Holstein black and white type bull calves, into two slaughter groups (group 1: 16 animals slaughtered with 190 ± 10 kg PV and group 2: 16 animals slaughtered with 300 ± 10 kg) with average of 75 days of age and initial 75 kg LW were allotted to a completely randomized design, with four treatments and […]