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| Barbosa,Carlos Enrique da Trindade; Silva,Carolina Teixeira Costa; Cantarelli,Vinícius de Souza; Zangeronimo,Márcio Gilberto; Sousa,Raimundo Vicente de; Garbossa,Cesar Augusto Pospissil; Amaral,Níkolas de Oliveira; Zeviani,Walmes Marques. |
| Performance and carcass and cut yield of finishing pigs of three sexual categories fed diets with different levels of ractopamine were studied. Forty-eight hybrid animals (initial weight of 92.1±2.4 kg) were distributed in a completely randomised design in 3 × 2 factorial arrangement (three sexual categories: surgically castrated males, two females and immunologically castrated males - with or without 10 ppm of ractopamine), totalling six treatments and eight repetitions with one animal per experimental plot during 28 days. Ractopamine improved weight gain and feed conversion of all sexual categories. The best results were obtained with immunologically castrated males, which, in turn, had lower carcass yield and backfat thickness in the belly. In the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Additives; Bonus rate; Carcass modifier; Immunologically castrated males; Swine nutrition. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000500014 |
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