Effects of housing condition, feeding style, and age on fattening performances, comfort, and some slaughterhouse characteristics in Eastern Anatolian Red bulls

Authors : Sadrettin YÜKSEL

Pages : 650-655

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :It is crucial to bring domestic animal breeds to production and to produce meat based on sectoral structure. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of age, housing condition, and feeding style on fattening performance, comfort, and carcass characteristics of the Eastern Anatolian Red insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(EAR); bulls, a native breed which is suitable for adverse environmental conditions and marginal land as well as resistant to diseases. Twenty-five purebred EAR bulls insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(15 head of 2-year-olds and 10 head of 1-year-olds); were assigned randomly to 1 of 5 finishing programs after allocating by the age, feeding protocol, and environmental conditions. The groups were housed either individually in pens inside the barn or in paddocks outside the barn during the experimental period. The floor of the roofed paddock was cleaned and kept dry. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences in daily live weight gain, total live weight gain insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P < 0.05);, and feed efficiency insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P < 0.01); among the groups. The differences among the groups were also significant in terms of hot carcass, dressing, and pelvic fat insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P < 0.01);, as well as weights of noncarcass components insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(except head); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P < 0.01);. The different values of the Wind Chill Index did not affect animal comfort adversely. It was clearly concluded that the EAR cattle can be a good fattening material if housing conditions and feeding style are appropriately designed.
Keywords : Age, housing condition, feeding style, fattening, Eastern Anatolian Red cattle, animal comfort