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A comparison of concentrate and silage-based finishing diets on the performance, carcass composition and meat quality of suffolk cross and scottish blackface lambs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

M. I. Mustafa  and
G. M. Webster
M. I. Mustafa
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
G. M. Webster
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
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There is great variation in lamb carcass quality due to there being many breeds and crosses involved in lamb production. Breed of lamb appears to influence the pattern of development of the important carcass components, and thus the carcass quality, when comparison is made at equal weights. Plane of nutrition may also affect the growth rate, carcass composition and eating quality of lambs of the same genotype. It was planned to study the effect of both breed and diet on growth performance, carcass and meat quality characteristics by feeding two different diets to the lambs of two different breeds similarly managed from birth to slaughter.

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Sheep Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1995 , March 1995 , pp. 90
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1995

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