Italian Journal of Animal Science (Jan 2010)

Growth and carcass traits of young bulls sired by Charolais and Limousin

  • Silvester Žgur,
  • Marko Čepon,
  • Mojca Simčič

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijas.2009.s3.267
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3s
pp. 267 – 269

Abstract

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A brown cattle is dual purpose cattle in Slovenia mainly used for milk production. This study included 90 crossbred young bulls of two genotypes, 70 Brown x Limousin (BRxLIM) and 20 Brown x Charolais (BRxCHA). The aim of this study was to determine some growth and carcass characteristics of crossbred young bulls. Data were analysed by GLM procedure considering sire breed and year nested within sire breed as fixed effects and slaughter age as linear regression. Sire breed statistically significantly affected slaughter weight, hot carcass weight, net daily gain, dressing percentage and index of conformation. All three included effects statistically significantly affected only slaughter weight, hot carcass weight and net daily gain.

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