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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Las Brujas; INIA Tacuarembó.
Fecha corriente: | 24/03/2021
Fecha de la última actualización: | 25/03/2021
Autoria: | DEL CAMPO, M.; MANTECA, X.; SOARES DE LIMA, J.M.; BRITO, G.; HERNÁNDEZ, P.; SAÑUDO, C.; MONTOSSI, F.
Afiliación: | MARCIA DEL CAMPO GIGENA, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; XAVIER MANTECA, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain; JUAN MANUEL SOARES DE LIMA LAPETINA, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; GUSTAVO WALTER BRITO DIAZ, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; PILAR HERNÁNDEZ, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain; CARLOS SAÑUDO, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; FABIO MARCELO MONTOSSI PORCHILE, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay.
Título: | Effect of different finishing strategies and steer temperament on animal welfare and instrumental meat tenderness.
Año de publicación: | 2021
Fuente/Imprenta: | Animals, 2021 Volume 11, Issue 3, Article number 859, pages 1-21. OPEN ACCESS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11030859
ISSN: | 2076-2615
DOI: | 10.3390/ani11030859
Idioma: | Inglés

Notas:

Article history: Received: 19 February 2021; Revised: 5 March 2021; Accepted: 6 March 2021; Published: 18 March 2021.
Academic Editors: Maria Camila Ceballos and Aline Sant'Anna.
This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Animal Interactions and Their Relationships with Animal Welfare, Emotions, and Personality: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/Human-Animal_Interactions_Connection_Animal_Welfare_Emotions_Personality

Contenido:

ABSTRACT.
The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of different fattening systems from pasture to concentrate and temperament on animal welfare (AW) and meat quality (MQ). Eighty-four Hereford steers were randomly assigned to the following groups: T1, pasture (4% of animal live weight: LW); T2, pasture (3% LW) plus concentrate (0.6% LW); T3, pasture (3% LW) plus concentrate (1.2% LW); T4, an ad libitum concentrate treatment. Temperament was assessed by three individual tests: crush score, flight time, and exit speed, building a multicriterial temperament index (TIndex). The flight zone was also registered for each treatment. AW was assessed through the integration of indicators of productivity, physiology, and behavior, as well as by monitoring the health status within each treatment. Shear force was registered for MQ. Differences in average daily gain were due to the different energetic composition of the diets (T4 > T3 > T2 > T1) and were not attributable to animal welfare problems. Animals from T4 had the higher average daily gain (ADG) but welfare was negatively affected, being evident through physiological indicators, the restriction or deprivation of relevant behaviors, diet-related diseases, and mortality. T1, T2, and T3 did not appear to compromise animal welfare. However, strict preventive measures and monitoring should be taken during the habituation process and when using any new diet that includes concentrate, because of possible dietary diseases. Shear force values were lower in T1. None of the animals in our experiment were excitable or aggressive, but there was a positive response to handling in all treatments. In addition, regardless of diet, calmer animals had higher average daily gain and lower shear force values; thus, temperament appears to have a significant influence on productivity and meat quality. 
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Palabras-Clave: | Acute phase proteins; Fecal glucocorticoids; Meat tenderness; STEERS; TEMPERAMENT.
Thesagro: | ANIMAL WELFARE; BIENESTAR ANIMAL.
Categoría del tema: | L01 Ganadería

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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/3/859/pdf

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