Características de carcaça e da carne de novilhos e novilhas superjovens, terminados com suplementação em pastagem cultivada

Fabiano Nunes Vaz; João Restle; Miguelangelo Ziegler Arboite; Leonir Luiz Pascoal; Dari Celestino Alves Filho; Rangel Fernandes Pacheco

doi:10.5216/cab.v11i1.5131

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 (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
João Restle Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
Miguelangelo Ziegler Arboite Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Leonir Luiz Pascoal Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Dari Celestino Alves Filho Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Rangel Fernandes Pacheco Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

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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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2010-04-01

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VAZ, Fabiano Nunes; RESTLE, João; ARBOITE, Miguelangelo Ziegler; PASCOAL, Leonir Luiz; ALVES FILHO, Dari Celestino; PACHECO, Rangel Fernandes. 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: 20 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2010)

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Animal Production

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