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- Title
Effect of high-concentrate diets with calcium lignosulfonate and cottonseed processing method on quantitative traits and non-carcass components of feedlot cull ewes.
- Authors
Viana, Pablo Teixeira; de Carvalho, Gleidson Giordano Pinto; Viana, Mirelle Costa Pignata; de Assis, Dallyson Yehudi Coura; de Figueiredo, Mauro Pereira; Cirne, Luís Gabriel Alves; Figueredo, Jennifer Souza; Sousa, Lorena Santos; de Santana Júnior, Hermógenes Almeida; Pina, Douglas dos Santos; Alba, Henry Daniel Ruiz
- Abstract
This study examined the effects of cottonseed processing form and the inclusion of calcium lignosulfonate in high-concentrate diets for feedlot cull ewes on carcass traits and non-carcass components. Thirty Santa Inês cull ewes with an average body weight of 44.2 ± 5.2 kg and an average age of 50 months were distributed into collective stalls in a completely randomized design. The treatments consisted of diets including whole cottonseed, crushed cottonseed, whole cottonseed treated with lignosulfonate (100 g/kg, as fed), crushed cottonseed treated with lignosulfonate (100 g/kg, as fed), and a control diet without cottonseed. The experimental diets did not influence (P>0.05) average daily weight gain (0.195 kg/day), slaughter weight (51.74 kg), or in vivo biometric and on-carcass measurements. There was no difference (P>0.05) in loin-eye area or subcutaneous fat thickness as evaluated in vivo by ultrasound. There was no diet effect on hot carcass weight and yield (24.8 kg and 47.8 %), cold carcass weight and yield (24.2 kg and 46.8 %), or chilling loss (2.1 %). Non-carcass components did not differ in response to the diets (P>0.05). Dietary inclusion of calcium lignosulfonate increases the proportions of udder and liver relative to empty body weight (P<0.05). Neither the cottonseed processing method nor the inclusion of calcium lignosulfonate in high-concentrate diets for cull ewes affects their performance, biometric or morphometric measurements, non-carcass components, or qualitative traits of their carcass.
- Subjects
DIETARY calcium; COTTONSEED; EWES; WEIGHT gain; QUANTITATIVE research; ANIMAL carcasses
- Publication
Archives Animal Breeding / Archiv Tierzucht, 2021, Vol 64, Issue 2, p355
- ISSN
0003-9438
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/aab-64-355-2021