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Spineless cactus associated with Tifton hay or sugarcane bagasse may replace corn silage in sheep diets

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The effect of the replacement of corn silage with spineless cactus associated with Tifton 85 hay or sugarcane bagasse was evaluated on the performance, body weight components and sheep meat quality. Twenty-one Santa Inês male sheep with initial body weight of 22.9 ± 2.9 kg were used. They were confined in individual stalls for 74 days receiving the following diets: corn silage + concentrate (CS); spineless cactus + Tifton 85 hay + concentrate (TH); spineless cactus + sugarcane bagasse + concentrate (SB). After the feedlot period, the animals were slaughtered and their body components were weighed and sampled. Data were submitted to Tukey’s test at 5% probability. The average daily gain (0.25 vs 0.14 kg), cold carcass weight (13.3 vs 13.7 kg), loin muscularity (0.6 vs 0.4 kg) and liver weight (0.7 vs. 0.5 kg) were higher (P < 0.05) for the TH diet when compared to that for the CS. The physical-chemical parameters of meat were not influenced (P > 0.05) by the treatments and presented about 20.1% of crude protein, 6.1% of crude fat and shear force of 2.0 kgf/cm2. In complete diets for sheep, Tifton 85 hay associated with spineless cactus provides greater weight gain, cold carcass muscularity and organ weight when compared to those for animals fed with corn silage as exclusive roughage. Sugarcane bagasse associated with spineless cactus may replace corn silage in complete diets for sheep.

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    Julimar do Sacramento Ribeiro, Luana Lira Santos, Dorgival Morais de Lima Júnior, Tobyas Maia de Albuquerque Mariz, Carolyny Batista Lima & Maria Josilaine Matos dos Santos Silva

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    Márcio Machado Ladeira

  3. Center for Agrarian Sciences, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, PB, 58397-000, Brazil

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do Sacramento Ribeiro, J., Santos, L.L., de Lima Júnior, D.M. et al. Spineless cactus associated with Tifton hay or sugarcane bagasse may replace corn silage in sheep diets. Trop Anim Health Prod 49, 995–1000 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-017-1288-6

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