The objective of the experiment was to study the carcass physical composition and meat qualitative characteristics of different categories of Charolais cattle, feedlot finished. Nine steers (ST), ten heifers (HE), with average age of 20 months, and ten cull cows (CO) with average age of 87 months, taken from the same herd, were used. Diet contained 13% of crude protein for ST and HE and 10% for CO, with roughage:concentrate relation of 50:50, on a dry matter basis. The animals […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of external components and discard fat of young steers with two different sexual conditions and two different genotypes, finished in feedlot. Average age and weight of the animals at the beginning of the experimental period were 12 months and 267.0 kg, respectively. The steers were in feedlot until reaching pre-established slaughter weight of 400 kg. Diet contained roughage:concentrate ratio of 50:50, on dry matter basis, with 10% crude protein. It […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate weight gain and carcass characteristics Nellore cattle, castrated or non-castrated, finished in confinement. It was used Thirty six animals with 24 months old and initial 445.30 kg BW (non-castrated) or 449.57 kg BW (castrated at 400 kg BW). The animals were slaughtered at 50 days of confinement, when reached 516.30 kg BW (non-castrated) and 506.86 kg BW (castrated). Non-castrated animals did not have an increase in final BW, but showed higher weight […]

Carcass dressing and primary cuts of Nellore cattle, submitted to the treatments: C13 = steers castrated at 13 months of age (n=26); C18 = steers castrated at 18 months of age before feedlot (n=26) and INT = intact males (n=25) was evaluated in this researach. The animals were confined per 100 days, fed diet with 12,0 % crude protein, 2.9 Mcal of DE/kg DM and forage to concentrate ratio of 60:40 (% DM), and slaughtered at 22 months of age. […]