Different physiological stages and breeding systems related to the variability of meat quality of indigenous Pantaneiro sheep.

ABSTRACT: This study configures a first report regarding the variability of meat quality of locally adapted Pantaneiro sheep depending on different physiological stages and breeding systems. Pantaneiro sheep are raised in Brazil under a tropical wetland ecosystem denominated Pantanal. Twenty-nine Pantaneiro sheep from different sex and physiological stages were sorted into three groups, simulating three of the most representative ovine meat products commercialized by South American industries: a) non castrated male lambs (n = 11); b) wethers (n = 9); c) cull ewes (n = 9). Animals from each physiological stage were submitted to different breeding systems, resembling farming strategies adopted in several developing countries of South America. The effect of physiological stages on the quality of meat w

SUBMITTER: Monteschio JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5809010 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature