Lambs fed diets with greater concentrate level (80%) significantly increased (P<0.05) DM intake, feed conversion, daily live weight gain, total and final live weight gains, cold carcass weight, compactness index, external carcass length, external chest depth, and buttocks circumference and did not modify (P>0.05) the cold dressing percentage, degree of carcass fat cover score and conformation.
In 22 out of 28 completely emaciated carcasses a muscle index was calculated according to Tyler [ 11].
A 8-wk feeding experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with Arg on haematological indices, serum chemistry, carcass yield, gut microflora, and lymphoid organ weights of growing turkeys.
The aim of the study was to determine the effect of sunflower products addition to lamb diets on lipid metabolism indices in blood plasma, carcass characteristics and longissimus dorsi muscle fatty acid (FA) composition.
Increased dietary protein level resulted in decreased protein efficiency ratio, hepatosomatic index, and lipid level in carcass or whole fish.
A chimpanzee carcass found near the hunting grounds of an index case tested positive for EBOV by an immunohistochemical skin biopsy (27).
Significant differences were observed between the crosses and the Santa Inês lambs in terms of the carcass weight, rib eye area, carcass and leg compactness indexes, weight and dressing of commercial cuts and the muscle:bone ratio.
Blackburn et al. [ 13] confirmed global clustering of carcasses during the outbreak using the average nearest neighbor index, which does not indicate the spatial scale of dependence.
These traits included weight and carcass traits, scrotal circumference, gestation length and two selection indexes [See Additional file 1 for detailed trait definitions].
Influential bulls were genotyped with the Illumina Bovine HD chip in order to assess genomic predictive ability for weight and carcass traits, gestation length, scrotal circumference and two selection indices.
