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Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The increasing demand for better sensory characteristics, nutritional quality, and functional attributes of meat products that are beneficial to human health is stimulating the consumer market. Diet and breed directly affect ruminant carcass traits and meat quality. Therefore, this r...

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Autores principales: Wu, Pu, Fu, Xiaoyue, Wang, Hucheng, Hou, Mingjie, Shang, Zhanhuan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8614279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34827853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11113120
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author Wu, Pu
Fu, Xiaoyue
Wang, Hucheng
Hou, Mingjie
Shang, Zhanhuan
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Fu, Xiaoyue
Wang, Hucheng
Hou, Mingjie
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: The increasing demand for better sensory characteristics, nutritional quality, and functional attributes of meat products that are beneficial to human health is stimulating the consumer market. Diet and breed directly affect ruminant carcass traits and meat quality. Therefore, this research aimed to evaluate the effects of silage diet and breed on growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of lambs. The lamb breed influenced fewer variables of growth performance and carcass characteristics compared to diet, and the lambs fed the sweet sorghum silage diet had higher nutritional quality meat than lambs fed the whole-crop corn silage diet. ABSTRACT: Diet and breed directly affect ruminant carcass traits and meat quality. Therefore, this research aimed to evaluate the effect of silage diet and breed on growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of lambs. A total of 28, 3–4 months old female lambs consisting of 14 Dorper lambs (DP) and 14 Thin-tailed Han lambs (TH) were allocated in a 2 × 2 factorial design and offered two experimental diets (sweet sorghum silage: SS; whole-crop corn silage: WS) for 90 days. Lambs fed the WS diet had a higher growth performance (p < 0.01), intramuscular fat content (p < 0.05), and bright meat color (p < 0.01) than lambs fed the SS diet. The lambs fed the SS diet showed a higher polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content than the lambs fed the WS diet (p < 0.01); there was no significant difference in growth performance and carcass characteristics between DP and TH lambs (p > 0.05). The meat of the DP lambs showed lower values of initial pH, shear force, lightness (L*), redness (a*), and saturated fatty acid (SFA) content (p < 0.05). The lamb breed influenced fewer variables of growth performance and carcass characteristics compared to the diet. The lambs fed the SS diet had higher nutritional quality meat than lambs fed the WS diet.
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spelling pubmed-86142792021-11-26 Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs Wu, Pu Fu, Xiaoyue Wang, Hucheng Hou, Mingjie Shang, Zhanhuan Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: The increasing demand for better sensory characteristics, nutritional quality, and functional attributes of meat products that are beneficial to human health is stimulating the consumer market. Diet and breed directly affect ruminant carcass traits and meat quality. Therefore, this research aimed to evaluate the effects of silage diet and breed on growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of lambs. The lamb breed influenced fewer variables of growth performance and carcass characteristics compared to diet, and the lambs fed the sweet sorghum silage diet had higher nutritional quality meat than lambs fed the whole-crop corn silage diet. ABSTRACT: Diet and breed directly affect ruminant carcass traits and meat quality. Therefore, this research aimed to evaluate the effect of silage diet and breed on growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of lambs. A total of 28, 3–4 months old female lambs consisting of 14 Dorper lambs (DP) and 14 Thin-tailed Han lambs (TH) were allocated in a 2 × 2 factorial design and offered two experimental diets (sweet sorghum silage: SS; whole-crop corn silage: WS) for 90 days. Lambs fed the WS diet had a higher growth performance (p < 0.01), intramuscular fat content (p < 0.05), and bright meat color (p < 0.01) than lambs fed the SS diet. The lambs fed the SS diet showed a higher polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content than the lambs fed the WS diet (p < 0.01); there was no significant difference in growth performance and carcass characteristics between DP and TH lambs (p > 0.05). The meat of the DP lambs showed lower values of initial pH, shear force, lightness (L*), redness (a*), and saturated fatty acid (SFA) content (p < 0.05). The lamb breed influenced fewer variables of growth performance and carcass characteristics compared to the diet. The lambs fed the SS diet had higher nutritional quality meat than lambs fed the WS diet. MDPI 2021-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8614279/ /pubmed/34827853 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11113120 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wu, Pu
Fu, Xiaoyue
Wang, Hucheng
Hou, Mingjie
Shang, Zhanhuan
Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs
title Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs
title_full Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs
title_fullStr Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs
title_short Effect of Silage Diet (Sweet Sorghum vs. Whole-Crop Corn) and Breed on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Lambs
title_sort effect of silage diet (sweet sorghum vs. whole-crop corn) and breed on growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of lambs
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8614279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34827853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11113120
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