Table 4. The evaluation of the primary wholesale cuts of lambs fed pelleted complete diets with levels of neutral detergent fibers (NDFs)
Parameters | Dietary groups1) | SEM | p-value |
Diet 1 | Diet 2 | Diet 3 | Groups | Quadratic |
Half carcass weight (kg) | 7.88b | 8.74a | 7.96b | 0.179 | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Shoulder (%) | 31.25 | 32.37 | 31.93 | 1.145 | 0.787 | 0.586 |
Rack (%) | 7.36 | 8.31 | 7.27 | 0.343 | 0.080 | 0.056 |
Loin (%) | 12.68 | 11.89 | 12.96 | 0.406 | 0.179 | 0.075 |
Leg (%) | 34.70 | 33.98 | 33.40 | 0.585 | 0.310 | 0.919 |
Foreshank and breast (%) | 14.01 | 13.45 | 14.43 | 0.645 | 0.566 | 0.339 |
Dietary groups consisted of pelleted complete diets with varying NDF content: Diet 1 (20.98% NDF), Diet 2 (28.23% NDF), and Diet 3 (34.82% NDF).
Superscripts represent significant differences (p<0.05) between dietary groups for each parameter within a row.