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Growth and carcass characteristics of three lamb genotypes finished on the same level of feeding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

A.F. Carson  and
L.O.W. McClinton
A.F. Carson
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co Down BT26 6DR
L.O.W. McClinton
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co Down BT26 6DR
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Improving the efficiency of lean meat production is of major importance to the UK sheep industry. Compared to a range of other breeds, Texel-sired lambs have been found to contain a higher proportion of carcass lean content. Carson et al. (1999) found that Texel X Greyface (Border Leicester X Scottish Blackface) lambs contained 38 g/kg more lean than Rouge de l'Ouest (Rouge) X Greyface lambs. The aims of the present experiment were (a) to investigate the efficiency of liveweight and carcass gains in Greyface, Rouge and Texel lambs at equal dry matter intakes of a standard diet (b) to test the hypothesis that carcass chemical composition would be similar in Greyface, Texel and Rouge lambs when finished on the same level of feeding.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2000 , 2000 , pp. 83
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2000

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