Forty-eight Suffolk Mule entire male lambs (22.3 kg average live weight, two months old) were used to study the effects of addition of sodium bicarbonate and increasing quantities of molassed sugar beet pulp (MSBP) to diets based on barley grain (780 g kgÿ1 fresh weight and approximately iso-energetic and iso-nitrogenous). Measurements were made of dry matter (DM) intake, growth, some ruminal a...

Leptin (LEP), the expression product of the obese gene produced primarily in the adipose tissue, is related to feed intake, growth and lipid metabolism. The aim of this study was to study the possible association between polymorphism of the LEP gene with growth and carcass traits among three Iranian sheep breeds of the Shal, Zandi and Zel varieties. A total of 180 purebred animals of the Shal, ...

leptin (lep), the expression product of the obese gene produced primarily in the adipose tissue, is related to feed intake, growth and lipid metabolism. the aim of this study was to study the possible association between polymorphism of the lep gene with growth and carcass traits among three iranian sheep breeds of the shal, zandi and zel varieties. a total of 180 purebred animals of the shal, ...

Abstract The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence carcass lesions in slaughtered pigs and quantify their relationships with different animal characteristics, pre-slaughter factors, blood measurements, performance indices, composition meat quality traits. Data was recorded for 30 journeys referring 1080 market-weight that originated from 15 commercial small-scale finishing farms. ...

twenty male raini goats with an average live weight of 30 ± 2.5 kg and 18 month of age. ,were used in a completely randomized design with 4 experimental diets and 5 replications to study effect of different levels by-pass(udp) protein(2.75, 4.86, 5.91 and 6.97 percent in dry matter) on growth and carcass characteristics. metabolismable energy (me) level of the all diets were similar (10.04 mj m...

In a population of 268 yearling bulls, those carcasses graded as U-, U0 or U+ for beef carcass conformation (n = 240) and those graded as 2-, 20 or 2+ for beef carcass fatness (n = 213) were selected to study the efficiency of carcass weight, carcass dimensions and instrumental colour of latissimus dorsi, rectus abdominis and subcutaneous fat, to discriminate among these carcass grades, in a po...

Carcass data from more than 4,400 Southdown x Romney ewe and wether lambs collected over a 16-yr period were analyzed for the effects of sex, rearing status, and growth rate. Ewe lambs grew more slowly than wethers and had .78 kg less carcass weight at the same age. The carcass weight advantage for wethers was nearly all caused by heavier fat-free weight. Based on fat depths, the fat on ewe lam...

The objective of this study was to evaluate performance, gastrointestinal morphometry, carcass, and non-carcass traits in lambs finished on different levels canola grain the diet. Twenty-seven Santa Ines with an average initial weight 19.33 ± 1.39 kg were given diet: 0, 8, 16%. Weights body condition scores determined at beginning, every 14 days end experimental period. Animals slaughtered asse...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the productive performance and carcass characteristics of three groups of growing grasscutters fed home-made concentrate diets. The objective was to assess the feeding values of the diets. The diets were labelled 0% grass diet, 7.5% grass diet and 15% grass dietand respectively contained 0, 7.5 and 15% guinea grass, Panicum maximum. The completely randomi...