Studies on meat production of buffalo males.
Abstract: The experiment was carried out at buffalo breeding research station belonging to Animal Production Research Institute. It aimed to achieve heavy weight by supplementing growth promoter for calves reared on the basis of birth weight. Twenty four buffalo calves were used. They were divided into two main groups, traditionally and untraditionally reared group. Each of them was divided into two subgroups not supplemented and supplemented 70 mg Zincbacitracin/ head/ day. Two calves in each subgroup were slaughtered.
The important results were:
- From birth to 8 months of age, rearing buffalo calves on the basis of birth weight did not affect daily gain and relative daily gain. While significantly affected milk dry matter intake and milk cost. So it improved feed cost by about 9% and cost of one kg gain by about 8%.
- From 8 to 17 months of age, Supplementing Zincbacitracin significantly increased daily gain and relative daily gain by about 16%. It significantly affected feed conversion and feed cost of one kg gain. It improved feed conversion by about 13% and feed cost of one kg gain by 12%. It significantly affected dressing percentage. It decreased the dressing percentage by about 10%. It significantly decreased heart fat weight and its percentage to empty body weight, but significantly increased intramuscular fat weight. It decreased the area of eye muscle by about 15%, while increased fat thickness by about 23%. It significantly decreased moisture percentage of best ribs’ meat, but increased ether extract and ash percentage.
Key words: buffalo calves, growth promoter, intramuscular, feed conversion.
Publication year 1998
Availability location مكتبة معهد بحوث الانتاج الحيوانى - شارع نادى الصيد - الدقى - الجيزة
Availability number 592
Organization Name
Department Buffalo Breeding Research Department
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Animal physiology - Nutrition
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Buffalo meat. Calves. Feed conversion efficiency. Growth factors.
Proposed Agrovoc buffalo calves, ;buffalo calves, ;
Publication Type PhD Thesis
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