AIM Present experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of selenium (Se) supplementation on performance, carcass characteristics, meat composition, shelflife of meat and biochemical profile in Nellore ram lambs. MATERIALS AND METHODS 24 male Nellore ram lambs (15.75±0.47 kg) were randomly divided into four dietary groups with six lambs in each and reared under uniform management condit...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of castration and slaughter age on performance and meat quality of Holstein bulls fed a high-concentrate diet. A total of 132 animals (116 ± 3.7 kg of BW and 97 ± 2.4 d of age) were randomly allocated in 6 pens using a 3 × 3 factorial arrangement of treatments. Three castration ages [bulls, animals castrated at 3 mo (CAS3), and animals castrated ...

the purpose of this study was to determine the socio-economic and intellectual factors affecting the imported meat preferences of consumers and to reveal the personal prioritized preferences of buyers consuming domestic meat and imported meat. the study was carried out in izmir, the third city of turkey, where face-to-face interviews were conducted in 300householdswhose occupants shop at hyperm...

Nutrition deals with ingestion of foods, digestion, absorption, transport of nutrients, intermediary metabolism, underlying anabolism and catabolism, and excretion of unabsorbed nutrients and metabolites. In addition, nutrition interacts with gene expressions, which are involved in the regulation of animal performances. Our laboratory is concerned with the improvement of animal productions, suc...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of different energy intake on physical and chemical composition in body fractions, growth performance and meat characteristics of finishing barrows and gilts. A total of twenty six crossbred (Landrace× Yorkshire) consisting of 16 barrows and 13 gilts were used in this study. The animals were allocated by sex to two treatments to form a 2×2 fac...

introduction: one of the aim of poultryscientist is to reduce cost feed along with increase in performance and improve in carcass characteristic poultry (1). in recent years, interest in use medicinal plants as feed additive to replace antibiotic growth promotor has increased. the plant additive through effect on the microbial flora of the gastro intestinal tract and the control pathogens impro...

The objective of this study was to estimate the differences in fattening performance, carcass traits and meat characteristics of Prestice Black-Pied (PBP) pigs and (BuxL)x(HxPn) crossbreed pigs (C) reared under organic free-range system or conventional indoor feeding system. PBP pigs under conventional system were characterized by lower average daily gain and worse carcass traits (lower meat pe...