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| Pacheco,Paulo Santana; Restle,João; Alves Filho,Dari Celestino; Brondani,Ivan Luiz; Pascoal,Leonir Luiz; Kuss,Fernando; Menezes,Luís Fernando Glasenapp de; Neiva,José Neuman Miranda. |
| 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 of the three categories were slaughtered with similar degree of finishing, with average subcutaneous fat thickness of 3.8 mm. HE showed carcasses with greater pistolcut percentage (52.8%) than ST (51.0%) and CO (51.4%). The carcass physical composition was similar among the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Compensatory growth; Feedlot; Intramuscular fat; Primary cuts; Sexual condition. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982011001100043 |
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