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Effects of Birth Weight on Animal Performance, Fattening Traits and Meat Quality of Lambs.
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- Dietary Rumen-Protected Taurine Enhances Growth Performance and Meat Quality in Heat-Stressed Crossbred Gan-Xi Goats via ModulatingFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Genome-Wide Association Study of Birth Wool Length, Birth Weight, and Head Color in Chinese Tan Sheep Through Whole-Genome Re-Sequencing.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Analysis of Placental DNA Methylation Changes and Fetal Birth Weight in Pigs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Nutritional Quality of Meat from Barren Merino Ewes in Comparison to Meat from Traditional Lambs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Association of the single nucleotide polymorphism in CAPN3 gene with growth performance in Merino and Garut (MEGA) backcross sheep.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a key developmental programming factor which might impair both the feed efficiency of lambs and meat quality, since it deeply impacts skeletal muscle and adipose tissue development. To determine the effect of birth weight on the growth performance, ruminal parameters, digestibility, non-carcass components, carcass traits, physicochemical characteristics and fatty acid profile of meat, two experimental groups (six animals in each group) of male Merino lambs with different body weights (BW) at birth (low BW (LW; 3.88 ± 0.281 kg) and high BW (HW; 5.80 ± 0.647 kg)) were used. The lambs were penned with their corresponding ewe during the natural suckling period, being weaned at 15 kg. Then, the lambs were penned individually and offered a complete pelleted diet during the fattening period. All the animals were slaughtered when they reached 27 kg of BW. After weaning, both daily dry matter intake (578 vs. 615 g/day;
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