Table 2 Half cold carcass and weight of commercial cuts of goats fed with cactus pear silage (CPS) and submitted to intermittent water supply (IWS).
Item | CPS (% DM) | IWS (h) | SEM | p-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 21 | 42 | 0 | 24 | 48 | CPS | IWS | CPS × IWS | ||
Half carcass weight | 5.29 | 5.28 | 5.01 | 5.23 | 5.37 | 4.99 | 1.04 | 0.759 | 0.654 | 0.370 |
Commercial cuts, kg | ||||||||||
Shoulder | 1.04 | 1.06 | 0.99 | 1.06 | 1.05 | 0.99 | 0.05 | 0.586 | 0.586 | 0.380 |
Neck | 0.54 | 0.51 | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.52 | 0.50 | 0.03 | 0.505 | 0.903 | 0.422 |
Ribs | 1.30 | 1.26 | 1.23 | 1.26 | 1.30 | 1.24 | 0.08 | 0.803 | 0.845 | 0.188 |
Leg | 1.53 | 1.51 | 1.40 | 1.50 | 1.53 | 1.41 | 0.08 | 0.492 | 0.579 | 0.393 |
Loin | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.55 | 0.50 | 0.04 | 0.709 | 0.692 | 0.596 |
Cuts yield, % | ||||||||||
Shoulder | 19.9 | 20.1 | 19.9 | 20.3 | 19.6 | 19.9 | 0.30 | 0.801 | 0.244 | 0.383 |
Neck | 10.2 | 9.66 | 9.70 | 9.69 | 9.83 | 10.1 | 0.30 | 0.376 | 0.687 | 0.134 |
Ribs | 24.6 | 23.9 | 24.5 | 24.1 | 24.1 | 24.8 | 0.54 | 0.639 | 0.552 | 0.438 |
Leg | 29.0 | 28.6 | 28.2 | 28.7 | 28.8 | 28.3 | 0.46 | 0.464 | 0.754 | 0.516 |
Loin | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.86 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 9.86 | 0.32 | 0.847 | 0.832 | 0.850 |
