1. Characteristics of carcasses and meat from feedlot lambs fed with sunflower cake
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Euclides Reuter de Oliveira, Flávio Pinto Monção, Andréa Maria de Araújo Gabriel, Alexandre Rodrigo Mendes Fernandes, Felipe de Almeida Nascimento, Felipe de Souza Abreu, Leandro do Valle Mendes da Silva, and Loan Henrique Pereira da Silva
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Coprodutos ,Conversão alimentar ,pH ,Ovinos ,Rendimento. ,Agriculture (General) ,S1-972 - Abstract
The aim of the experiment was to evaluate the characteristics of the carcasses and meat of feedlot lambs that received diets supplemented with sunflower cake; correlations among the variables were also performed. The experimental design was a randomized block design with four treatments (sunflower cake added at 0, 10, 20, and 30% dry matter to the base diet) and seven replications per treatment. The diets were formulated with genotypes of Cynodon hay and corn- and soybean meal-based concentrate that were premixed at the ratio of 50:50 (hay:concentrate) and were fed to the lambs in two portions daily at 08:00 and 14:00. The feed conversion of the animals was adversely affected (P
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- 2016
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