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Effect of the β-adrenergic agonist cimaterol and dietary protein level on fat young sheep given diets containing submaintenance levels of dietary energy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

H. Galbraith ,
B. Minassie  and
J. R. Scaife
H. Galbraith
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5UA
B. Minassie
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5UA
J. R. Scaife
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5UA
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Abstract

Thirty Suffolk cross wether sheep aged about 12 months and weighing 57 kg on average were used. They had been given previously a high energy diet to produce a fat body condition and average condition score of 3·7. Animals were allocated to an initial slaughter group (IS) or to four dietary treatment groups (UL, UH, CL and CH) based on sugar-beet feed (L) or white-fish meal (H) supplemented with chopped straw and pelleted, without (UL and UH) or with (CL and CH) the β-adrenergic agonist cimaterol, to provide an estimated 20 g (L) or 130 g (H) rumen undegradable protein per kg dry matter (DM). The sheep were offered 0·3 kg of the appropriate pelleted diet in addition to 200 to 400 g of chopped barley straw to provide proportionately 0·7 of the estimated metabolizable energy requirement for maintenance and, where appropriate, 2·5 mg cimaterol per day. Comparisons were made for the main effects of dietary protein intake and cimaterol and interactions between dietary protein and cimaterol.

The animals on dietary treatments were slaughtered after 49 days. The animals exhibited variable reductions in live weight and weights of carcass and non-carcass components in comparison with the IS group and in response to restricted dietary energy intake. The only effect due to the elevated dietary protein provision was a smaller loss in live weight compared with the low protein diet. In contrast, compared with responses recorded in its absence, treatment with cimaterol resulted in significantly greater values for weights of cold carcass, cross-sectional area o/m. longissimus dorsi and weights of DM, crude protein and ash in the carcass with significantly smaller weights for raw fleece. In comparison with the IS group, significantly smaller changes due to cimaterol were recorded for the weights of carcass crude protein and ash. Cimaterol treatment significantly increased the weight loss of fat in the carcass and in the perirenal and retroperitoneal, but not omental, depots as components of fleece-free non-carcass fat which was also significantly reduced in total. Interactions suggested that losses in carcass weight and DM in the presence of cimaterol were less and gains in carcass protein and ash greater, on the high than on the low protein diet. The results suggest that under conditions of energy undernutrition cimaterol may induce smaller losses or larger gains in carcass but not non-carcass, crude protein at the expense of fat depletion in carcass and non-carcass fat depots.

Keywords

β-adrenergic agonistcimaterolfat mobilizationsheepunder-nutrition
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 271 - 278
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1997

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