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Effects of plane of nutrition and selenium supplementation of ewes in early and mid-pregnancy on meat quality of offspring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

C Muñoz ,
A F Carson ,
M A McCoy ,
B W Moss  and
A W Gordon
C Muñoz*
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, United Kingdom
A F Carson
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, United Kingdom
M A McCoy
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom
B W Moss
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom
A W Gordon
Affiliation:
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom
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Nutritional status in early and mid-pregnancy can affect subsequent offspring productivity. For example, plane of nutrition in early and mid-pregnancy has been shown to have a significant effect on carcass characteristics, with male offspring of dams offered a low plane diet in early pregnancy having poorer carcass conformation and greater fat depths over the muscle L. dorsi than lambs of dams offered medium or high plane diets (Muñoz et al. 2008a). Supplementation with selenium (Se) during this period had positive effects on measures of lamb viability and survival (Muñoz et al. 2008b). The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of plane of nutrition and selenium supplementation of ewes in early and mid-pregnancy on the meat quality of the male offspring.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2009 , April 2009 , pp. 75
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2009

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