This study was conducted to evaluate dressing out percent and carcass characteristic potentials of EL Gash sheep,
under their natural habitat in Kassala town abattoir, Thirty , sheep 15 males and 15 females , were purchased form
the different local market of El Gash Area. Each sex was comprised of five groups , according to the age studied .
live animals body weights were be taken before and after slaughtering .The evaluation of dressing out percent carcass
yield characteristic were be taken. The slaughter data results significant difference between the two sexes . The result
indicated that dressing out percentage were 49.4% and 47.3% for the male and the female respectively with overall
average of 48% . Slaughter at different ages showed significant differences in some parts of internal organs between
the two sexes. Alive weight, muscle, bone, trims, head, skin, rumen full, intestine full intestine empty, liver, heart, lungs
reproductive organs and spleen were heavier in male than the female it might be due to the sex male hormone, but
mesenteric fat, omentum fat, kidney knob canal fat [k.k.c.f], and fat were heavier in female than the males while muscle,
bone, fat, trims, head, mesenteric fat, omentum fat, spleen and knob canal fat (k.k.c.f)were significant.
Dressing Out Percent And Some Carcass Characteristic of EL Gash Sheep
- Omer M. O. M
- Ekhlas A.N
- Atif O.M.A
Omer M. O. M
Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Eastern State-Kasala
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Ekhlas A.N
University of Khartoum Department of Animal Production
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Atif O.M.A
Faculty of Agriculture and natural resources Department of Animal Production- University of Kassala
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Cite this:
M. O. M, O., A.N, E., & O.M.A, A. (2018). Dressing Out Percent And Some Carcass Characteristic of EL Gash Sheep. Journal of Medical Biomedical and Applied Sciences, 6(9), 154–157. https://doi.org/10.15520/jmbas.v6i9.154
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