Tecidual composition of commercial cuts of male lambs and female crosses Lacaune x Texel

Abstract

It was evaluated tissue composition of commercial cuts of male lambs and female it crosses Lacaune x Texel. Samples of meat proceeding from 22 lambs had been used being, 11 male lambs not castrated and 11 females, cross Lacaune x Texel, finished in improved native field and supplemented with commercial ration. The criterion of abates of the lambs was through the corporal condition 2,5 and 3,0 (1,0 scale the 5,0) corresponding to the index of fat of the carcass, that is demanded by the local consuming market. After the lambs to be abated the carcasses had been conditioned in cold chamber, with forced air, the temperature of ±10C. For the tissue composition of shoulder and the leg being carried through the separation for the separation of following fabrics: subcutaneous fat, fat to intermuscle, others, muscle and bone. Through the separation of shoulder and the leg the weights (in kg and %) of fabrics had been gotten, being that the percentage of the tissue components had been calculated in relation to the weight of shoulder and of the leg. The data had been submitted the analysis of variance, and comparison of average, ANOVA (SAS, 2001). Had the both sex not to have presented excellent differences in the tissues characteristics of the cuts, keeping the same qualitative characteristics of the meat, males and females proceeding from this crossing Lacaunex Texel submitted the same the alimentary handling can abated and be commercialized at the same time in one same commercial category, without damages to the producer.