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Effect of age on carcass characteristics and meat quality of Sirohi goat kids reared under semi-intensive and intensive management systems

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Title Effect of age on carcass characteristics and meat quality of Sirohi goat kids reared under semi-intensive and intensive management systems
 
Creator RAJKUMAR, V
AGNIHOTRI, M K
DAS, ARUN K
RAMACHANDRAN, N
SINGH, D
 
Subject Age; Carcass traits; Management system; Meat quality; Sirohi
 
Description Performance of male Sirohi goat kids reared under intensive (N=18) and semi-intensive (N=18) management systems was studied. Nine kids from each group were slaughtered at 9 and 12 months of age to study the carcass traits, meat production profile and quality. Kids under intensive feeding were offered concentrate (200 g/head/day), seasonal green fodder (1 kg) and ad lib. dry roughages. Under semi-intensive system, kids were allowed 4–5 h daily grazing and supplemented with 100 g concentrate with ad lib. dry roughages. Kids reared under intensive system attained 28.47 kg slaughter weight (SW), i.e.16.11% more as compared to 24.52 kg under semi-intensive system at 9 months. At 12 months of age, increase slaughter weight was 15.92%. Hot carcass weight and dressing percentage were significantly (P
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
Contributor ICAR
 
Date 2010-08-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/362
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 80, No 8 (2010)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/362/333
 
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