Características de carcaça e da carne de novilhos e novilhas superjovens, terminados com suplementação em pastagem cultivada
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2010-03
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José Henrique Stringhini
Resumo
The objective of the study was to evaluate the carcass
and meat characteristics of young castrated steers and heifers.
Twelve animals of each sex were used, fed during growth
with energetic supplementation on Lolium multiflorum +
Avena strigosa cultivated pasture, and finished on Pennisetum
purpureum, and slaughtered at fourteen months of age. Farm
live weight hot carcass and weight were higher for steers, being
of 365.8 and 203.4 kg, respectively, than for heifers being 310.3
and 168.6 kg, in the same order. Males were superior in carcass
length (118.1 vs. 111.3 cm), leg length (69.2 vs. 64.1 cm) and
in the longissimus dorsi area (58.0 vs. 52.4 cm2). No difference
was observed for subcutaneous fat thickness, but heifers
showed meat with better marbling (5.58 points) than the males
(3.67 points). No differences for sensorial and organoleptical
characteristics were observed between the two sexes. In
conclusion, excepting relation to weight, young heifers have
carcass and meat characteristics similar to males.
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Bovinos de corte, Hereford x nelore, Maciez da carne, Pastagem cultivada, Sexo, Beef cattle, Hereford x nellore, Meat tenderness, Cultivated pasture, Sex
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VAZ, Fabiano Nunes; RESTLE, João; ARBOITE, Miguelangelo Ziegler; PASCOAL, Leonir Luiz; ALVES FILHO, Dari Celestino; PACHECO, Rangel Fernandes. Características de carcaça e da carne de novilhos e novilhas superjovens, terminados com uplementação em pastagem cultivada. Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 1, p. 42-52, jan./mar. 2010. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/5131/6507>.