Growth rate, meat quality and fatty acids composition of Agnello di Sardegna PGI light lambs

Marco Acciaro, Maria Sitzia, Carla Manca, Myriam Fiori, Margherita Addis, Valeria Giovanetti, Mauro Decandia and Corrado Dimauro
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Mauro Decandia: AGRIS Sardegna, Dipartimento per la Ricerca nelle Produzioni Animali, 07040 Olmedo, Italy
Corrado Dimauro: Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Sassari, viale Italia 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy

Agricultural Research & Technology: Open Access Journal, 2020, vol. 25, issue 2, 114-122

Abstract: The work aims to fill the knowledge gap on performance and meat quality of Agnello di Sardegna PGI light lambs. To this end fourteen male lambs, homogeneous for age and litter size and consisting of seven pure Sarda (S X S) and seven crossbred Ile de France x Sarda (IF X S) lambs were compared for growth rate, dressing-out percent, chemical composition, fatty acids (FA) composition of Longissimus lumborum muscle and some nutritional indexes. Lambs suckled and followed their mothers at pasture until slaughtering at17±3 kg Live Weight and 50±1 days old, (means±s.d). The SXS lambs showed higher content of some healthy fatty acids (EPA) and better values of some nutritional indexes (Thrombogenic and Ipo-ipercholesterolemic index).

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Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/ARTOAJ.2020.25.556305

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