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Native pasture; Sheep farming; Yields from meat cuts; Semi-arid.
Production system that integrates animal husbandry, agricultural crops with
native vegetation, that is, crop-livestock integration system, are systems of
more sustainable and more productive production. Therefore, the integration system
livestock farming in the Caatinga biome becomes an important strategy for agriculture
in the semiarid. In this way, the objective was to evaluate the crop-livestock integration system
in the Caatinga biome, carcass characteristics, morphometry and cut yields
sheep meat trade in integrated systems. The experiment was conducted in a
area of the Caatinga thinned and enriched with tree, shrub and herbaceous pasture. You
treatments consisted of three integration systems: 1.beans (cultivar BRS
Pujante) grown in the Caatinga; 2.corn (cultivar BRS Catingueiro) grown in
Caatinga; and 3.herbaceous cotton (cultivar BRS Aroeira) grown in the Caatinga, in addition to
a control treatment: 4. Caatinga only. 24 were used (six per treatment)
F1 Santa Inês x Dorper sheep, with an average initial body weight of 24.64 ± 2.95kg. O
beans, corn and cotton were cultivated in a rainfed system within the plots
experimental. The animals had access to the pasture from 6:30 in the morning; each
animal in their respective integrated system, and were collected at 5:30 pm and kept in the
stalls. A completely randomized design was used with four treatments and
six repetitions (sheep). The integration system with cotton cultivation increased the
body weight at slaughter, hot carcass weight, cold carcass weight and carcass weight
true (P<0.05). Regarding the morphometric measurements of the carcass, there was no difference.
Differences were observed for shoulder and shank cuts (P<0.05). It is proposed that the implementation
This type of integrated system in Caatinga pasture optimizes carcass characteristics
and commercial cuts of F1 Santa Inês x Dorper sheep.