CARCASS AND MEAT CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG STEERS AND HEIFERS, FINISHED WITH SUPPLEMENTATION ON CULTIVATED PASTURE

Authors

  • Fabiano Nunes Vaz Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • João Restle UFG
  • Miguelangelo Ziegler Arboite Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Leonir Luiz Pascoal Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Dari Celestino Alves Filho Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Rangel Fernandes Pacheco UFMS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v11i1.5131

Keywords:

beef cattle, Hereford x Nelore beef tenderness, cultivated pasture, sex

Abstract

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.

KEY WORDS: Beef cattle, Hereford x Nellore, meat tenderness, cultivated pasture, sex.

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Author Biographies

Fabiano Nunes Vaz, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Pesquisador CEPAN UFRGS

Miguelangelo Ziegler Arboite, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Doutorando em Zootecnia

Leonir Luiz Pascoal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Doutor, Professor Depto de Zootecnia

Dari Celestino Alves Filho, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Doutor, Professor do Depto de Zootecnia

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Published

2010-04-01

How to Cite

VAZ, F. N.; RESTLE, J.; ARBOITE, M. Z.; PASCOAL, L. L.; ALVES FILHO, D. C.; PACHECO, R. F. CARCASS AND MEAT CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG STEERS AND HEIFERS, FINISHED WITH SUPPLEMENTATION ON CULTIVATED PASTURE. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 1, p. 42–52, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v11i1.5131. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/5131. Acesso em: 6 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Animal Production

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