Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 2
Written by Camelia-Zoia ZAMFIR, Dorina NADOLU, Ana ENCIU, Alexandru Gabriel VARTIC, Andreea Hortanse ANGHEL, Cristian Vasile ILIȘIU, Adriana Natalia VICOVAN, Corneliu Ion NEACȘU, Alina Narcisa NICOLESCU
In the conditions of the orientation for meat production of sheep breeding in Romania, the meat production performance of hybrid lambs obtained from 2 crossbreeding variants Palas Meat Breed x Palas Merino and Suffolk x Palas Merino were studied at ICDCOC Palas Constanța and a private farm. The research carried out on 80 lambs (40 hybrids and 40 Palas Merino) subjected to fattening aimed to increase the productive performance of hybrid lambs expressed through growth rate, feed conversion into growth gain and carcass quality obtained from experimental slaughter. The results obtained revealed that hybrid lambs achieved significantly higher weight gains (p<0.001) compared to Palas Merino lambs (328 g in hybrids with the Palas Meat Breed and 280.84 g in hybrids with Suffolk), better conversion of nutrients into growth gain and higher carcass quality indices compared to the maternal breed, respectively the leg of mutton muscularity index by 34.46% and the leg of mutton compactness index by 34.78% higher in hybrids with the Meat breed and by 21.64% muscularity index and 30.29% leg of mutton compactness in hybrids with Suffolk.
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