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The effect of growth rate on muscle distribution in sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. M. Murray  and
Olga Slezacek
D. M. Murray
Affiliation:
School of Wool and Pastoral Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
Olga Slezacek
Affiliation:
Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
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There is little information available on the effect of growth rate on muscle distribution in sheep. Although Lohse, Moss & Butterfield (1971) and Lohse (1973) have reported data on muscle distribution of Merino sheep, the growth rates of animals in both these studies were neither controlled nor reported. In another experiment using Merino sheep, Lohse, Pryor & Butterfield (1973) studied the effect of a period of live-weight loss on the relationship of selected muscles to total side muscle during subsequent re-alimentation. They found that the interrupted growth path decreased the proportion of total side muscle formed by the weight of ten muscles which had previously been classified as muscles with a high growth impetus (Lohse, 1971). Data are presented herein for the muscle distribution of sheep grown along three growth paths.

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Short Note
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , August 1975 , pp. 189 - 191
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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