Productive performance and carcass yield of grazing water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) and bovine cattle in the growing-fattening stage
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realized according to a simple classification model with concomitant variable initial live weight. Naturalized pastures constituted 74.7 % and pangola grass 20.9 % of the botanical composition and yielded, as a whole, 2.2 and 0.8 t ha-1 of available DM in the rainy and dry season, respectively. Buffalypso animals gained 624 g daily of live weight, a higher value (P < 0.0001) to that reported for Carabao (506 g) and Zebu (438 g) and Siboney (428 g) cattle. Carcass yield (50.0 and 50.2 %) was lower (P < 0.05) and also that of meat 62.2 and 61.6 % (P < 0.0001) in Buffalypso and Carabao buffaloes, respectively regarding the bovine cattle with values of 51.2 and 51.1 and of 65.4 and 65.0 % in the same order for Siboney and Zebu. However, meat production per surface unit tended to increase in
Buffalypso (78.2 kg.ha-1) regarding the Carabao (67.5 kg.ha-1), the Zebu (67.5 kg.ha-1) and Siboney (64.7 kg.ha-1). It is concluded that in natural pastures Buffalypso had better performance than Carabao and the studied bovines.
Key words: buffaloes, performance, yield, grazing
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