Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga
The objective of this study was to evaluate morphometric measures, carcass yields, absolute weights and yields of commercial cuts of carcass of kids with no defined breed. Eighteen castrated male goats, with average weight of 15 kg were used. The experimental period lasted 105 days. The experimental...
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| author | Sharleny Braz Lobato Bezerra Antonia Sherlânea Chaves Véras Dulciene Karla de Andrade Silva Marcelo de Andrade Ferreira Kedes Paulo Pereira Gladston Rafael de Arruda Santos André Luiz Rodrigues Magalhães Omer Cavalcanti de Almeida |
| author_facet | Sharleny Braz Lobato Bezerra Antonia Sherlânea Chaves Véras Dulciene Karla de Andrade Silva Marcelo de Andrade Ferreira Kedes Paulo Pereira Gladston Rafael de Arruda Santos André Luiz Rodrigues Magalhães Omer Cavalcanti de Almeida |
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| description | The objective of this study was to evaluate morphometric measures, carcass yields, absolute weights and yields of commercial cuts of carcass of kids with no defined breed. Eighteen castrated male goats, with average weight of 15 kg were used. The experimental period lasted 105 days. The experimental design was completely randomized; animals were allocated to three treatments: free grazing without supplementation; restricted grazing without supplementation and free grazing with supplementation. Animals were supplemented (1% of body weight) with forage cactus (Opuntia ficus - indica, Mill) and soybean meal (Glycine max). The feeding consisted of continuous grazing on caatinga. Supplemented animals had higher live slaughter weight and body score, and consequently higher morphometric measures in vivo and in carcasses. The supplementation provided carcasses with higher body weight and body score. For yields of carcass, there was no difference between treatments restricted grazing and grazing with supplementation; supplementation provided carcasses with higher yields. Supplemented animals had higher absolute weights for commercial cuts. Supplementation of grazing goats raised in the caatinga provides animals with higher body weight at slaughter, greater morphometric measures in vivo and in carcass and better body conformation. Therefore, for supplementation, the level used in this experiment is a good alternative in the creation of small ruminants during the dry period in the semi-arid region. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c87348364e094974adc8dc458f6627da2022-12-22T02:45:40ZengSociedade Brasileira de ZootecniaRevista Brasileira de Zootecnia1516-35981806-92902012-01-0141113113710.1590/S1516-35982012000100020Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the CaatingaSharleny Braz Lobato BezerraAntonia Sherlânea Chaves VérasDulciene Karla de Andrade SilvaMarcelo de Andrade FerreiraKedes Paulo PereiraGladston Rafael de Arruda SantosAndré Luiz Rodrigues MagalhãesOmer Cavalcanti de AlmeidaThe objective of this study was to evaluate morphometric measures, carcass yields, absolute weights and yields of commercial cuts of carcass of kids with no defined breed. Eighteen castrated male goats, with average weight of 15 kg were used. The experimental period lasted 105 days. The experimental design was completely randomized; animals were allocated to three treatments: free grazing without supplementation; restricted grazing without supplementation and free grazing with supplementation. Animals were supplemented (1% of body weight) with forage cactus (Opuntia ficus - indica, Mill) and soybean meal (Glycine max). The feeding consisted of continuous grazing on caatinga. Supplemented animals had higher live slaughter weight and body score, and consequently higher morphometric measures in vivo and in carcasses. The supplementation provided carcasses with higher body weight and body score. For yields of carcass, there was no difference between treatments restricted grazing and grazing with supplementation; supplementation provided carcasses with higher yields. Supplemented animals had higher absolute weights for commercial cuts. Supplementation of grazing goats raised in the caatinga provides animals with higher body weight at slaughter, greater morphometric measures in vivo and in carcass and better body conformation. Therefore, for supplementation, the level used in this experiment is a good alternative in the creation of small ruminants during the dry period in the semi-arid region.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000100020body scorecommercial cutsconformationmorphometric measuressupplementationyields |
| spellingShingle | Sharleny Braz Lobato Bezerra Antonia Sherlânea Chaves Véras Dulciene Karla de Andrade Silva Marcelo de Andrade Ferreira Kedes Paulo Pereira Gladston Rafael de Arruda Santos André Luiz Rodrigues Magalhães Omer Cavalcanti de Almeida Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia body score commercial cuts conformation morphometric measures supplementation yields |
| title | Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga |
| title_full | Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga |
| title_fullStr | Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga |
| title_short | Morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the Caatinga |
| title_sort | morphometry and carcass characteristics of goats submitted to grazing in the caatinga |
| topic | body score commercial cuts conformation morphometric measures supplementation yields |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000100020 |
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