Carcass and meat traits of goats fed diets containing cottonseed cake

• Autor(a) principal: Dallyson Yehudi Courade Assis
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Henry Daniel Ruiz Alba, Gleidson Giordano Pinto de Carvalho, Fabiano Almeida de Oliveira, Edson Mauro Santos, Ana Alice Lima de Gouvêa, Bruna Mara Aparecida de Carvalho Mesquita, Camila de Oliveira Nascimento, Luís Gabriel Alves Cirne, Douglas Dos Santos Pina, Aureliano José Vieira Pires
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-64-395-2021; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/52240
• topic: Farelo de caroço de algodão como ração; Nutrição animal; Caprino -- Nutrição

The cottonseed cake has the necessary nutritional characteristics to be able to substitute the traditional ingredients (such as soybean meal) and reduce the costs of the diet. However, it is necessary to determine the best level of inclusion of cottonseed cake in the diets of fattening goats to improve meat production and quality. The objective of this study was to evaluate carcass and meat traits of feedlot goats fed diets containing cottonseed cake replacing soybean meal (33 %, 66 % and 100 %). Thirty-two uncastrated Boer crossbred goats (4 months old, 16 ± 2 kg initial body weight) were used in a completely randomized experimental design. Replacing soybean meal with cottonseed did not compromise (P >0.05) slaughter weight, carcass traits (dressing percentage, loineye area and back-fat thickness), primal cuts or carcass morphometric measurements; moisture, protein, or total lipid contents of meat; or the physicochemical traits of color (L∗, a∗ and b∗ coordinates), pH, shear force, and cooking loss. However, there was a reduction (P = 0.001) in the mineral matter content (from 1.08 % to 0.97 %) and an increase (P = 0.006) in the cholesterol content (from 50.85 to 70.55 mg/100 g of meat) of the meat as the dietary levels of cottonseed cake were increased. Based on the results of production and meat quality, we recommend using cottonseed cake as an alternative protein source to replace up to 100 % of soybean meal in feedlot goat diets.