Comparison of Basic Fattening Performance of Cattle Breeds Used in Meat Production in Turkiye

Authors : Aşkın GALİÇ, Nurcan KARSLIOĞLU KARA

Pages : 944-951

Doi:10.30910/turkjans.1295589

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Publication Date : 2023-10-13

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In Türkiye, 98.5% of cattle in registered farms consist of dual purpose breeds. This also indicates how low the rate of use of beef cattle breeds in meat production is. However, feed efficiency, daily live weight gain and meat quality of beef cattle breeds are high and this is important in terms of farm economy and market quality. In this study, cattle breeds used for meat production in Türkiye and their performances were compared. According to the results, it was observed that the mean slaughter age of the breeds varied between 545.6±3.10 days and 619.1±3.03 days. Galloways came to the fore among all other breeds in terms of carcass weight and gain in carcass weight per day insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P<0.01);. In addition, while there was no difference in terms of carcass weight among dual purpose breeds, it was found that Simmentals were advantageous compared to Brown Swiss in terms of slaughter age and daily gain in carcass weight. insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P<0.01);.
Keywords : Sığır, Besi, Et üretimi, Irk