Carcass characteristics and meat quality of sheep fed buffelgrass silage to replace corn silage

Autor:	Gherman Garcia Leal de Araújo, Glayciane Costa Gois, Fleming Sena Campos, E.G. Silva, T.M. Barros e Silva, Juliana Silva de Oliveira, S. M. Yamamoto, Ossival Lolato Ribeiro, E.M. Santos, Alexandre Fernandes Perazzo
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Animal science Silage Organoleptic Live weight food and beverages Animal Science and Zoology Biology Loin Crossbreed Sensory analysis Intact male Quadratic response
Zdroj:	South African Journal of Animal Science. 51:231-240
ISSN:	2221-4062 0375-1589
DOI:	10.4314/sajas.v51i2.11
Popis:	The aim of the study was to evaluate the carcass characteristics, proximate composition, and sensorial attributes of meat from sheep fed diets in which buffelgrass silage replaced corn silage. Thirty-two intact male crossbred Santa Inês sheep with an average live weight of 20.09 ± 2.0 kg were housed in individual stalls and allotted at random to four treatments in which corn silage was replaced by buffelgrass silage at the levels of 0 (control), 33.3%, 66.6%, and 100%. After an adaption period of 10 days, the sheep were fed for an additional 61 days. Feed was offered ad libitum and corn silage comprised 60% of the diet for the control group. Carcass characteristics, non-carcass components and meat quality were evaluated. Hot carcass yield, cold carcass yield, true carcass yield, trimmings, fat weight, and mesenteric and omental fat weight were highest for the control group (P
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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