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Effects of birth type and family on the variation of carcass and meat traits in Santa Ines sheep.
Tropical animal health and production - 1 Feb 2016
Jucá Adriana de Farias, Faveri Juliana Cantos, Melo Filho Geraldo Magalhães, Ribeiro Filho Antônio de Lisboa, Azevedo Hymerson Costa, Muniz Evandro Neves, Pedrosa Victor Breno, Pinto Luís Fernando Batista
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of birth type and family on quantitative and qualitative meat traits in Santa Ines lambs and to do a descriptive study of variation inside of breed. A total of 50 carcass and meat traits were evaluated in up to 101 lambs slaughtered at 424 days of age. Random effect of family, the fixed effect of birth type (single or double) and year, and the covariates of dam's weight at...
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