Características da carcaça de ovinos confinados alimentados com palma forrageira e fenos de leguminosas

Abstract

Containment is a sustainable system when used in combination with alternative foods that meet the nutritional needs of animals and become economically viable for the producer. Foods that have the characteristics of resistance to periods of drought in the semiarid northeast, as cactus pear and legumes are used and evaluated in animals. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate carcass characteristics and tissue composition of sheep meat in confinement. Was used cactus pear with four different types of legumes hay: Catanduva, sabiá, catingueira and gliricídia. We used 24 sheep half SPRD (without defined breed) x 1/2 Soinga intact male, with an average body weight of 21.4 kg. When they reach 60 days of the experiment the animals were submitted to the slaughter. The use of palm associated with legume hays provided changes (P <0.05) for the variables thigh circumference (43.50 cm), empty body weight (24.45 cm), TGI content (6.65 kg ), chest circumference (68.50 cm), weight and yield of the palette (17.30 kg and 1.22%) and loin (18.67 kg and 1.39%) and leg weight (31.10 kg ), bone percentage (18.98%), muscle: bone (4.17 %) and omental fat (0.97 kg). Cactus pear associated with hay forage legumes can be noted in sheep feeding in confinement for maintaining desirable carcass characteristics of animals.