Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVII, Issue 2
Written by Miroslav HRISTOV, Tsvetan MARKOV, Nikolay MARKOV, Ivan YANCHEV, Tsvetelina DIMITROVA
The structural changes made in the cattle breed composition during the last 30 years in Bulgaria, along with studies on milk and meat productivity, have required the study of hides as a strategic raw material for the light industry. The relative weight, percentage of hide from the live weight, size, surface area, and thickness in certain sections of cull cows excluded from breeding for various reasons, from the following breeds were studied: Limousin, Galloway, Normande cattle, Bulgarian Red Cattle. Significant breed differences were observed in the examined hide parameters. The best represented in the space, as a spread of the configuration, was the raw hides obtained from Normande cattle (498.29 dm2), followed by Bulgarian Red Cattle (461.23 dm2). The worst indicators were found in Galloway (388.75 dm2) (p <005).
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