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FP06-2004<br />

Food Science and Biotechnology in Developing Countries<br />

Diet Effect upon chemical composition of Pelibuey and Polipay - Rambouillet.<br />

Esaúl Jaramillo López (1), Gwendolyne Peraza Mercado (2) y Saraí Chávez del Hierro (3).<br />

(1) Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Anillo Envolvente del Pronaf y Estocolmo s/n, C.P.<br />

32300, A.P.1595-D, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, Tel y Fax. 6881894.<br />

Email: ejaramil@uacj.<strong>mx</strong><br />

(2) Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Anillo Envolvente del Pronaf y Estocolmo s/n, C.P.<br />

32300, A.P.1595-D, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, Tel y Fax. 6881894.<br />

Email: gperaza@uacj.<strong>mx</strong><br />

(3) Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Anillo Envolvente del Pronaf y Estocolmo s/n, C.P.<br />

32300, A.P.1595-D, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, Tel y Fax. 6881894.<br />

Email: al48917@uacj.<strong>mx</strong><br />

Abstract<br />

The main objetive of the present project was to evaluate the effect of the type of gain (corn<br />

and s<strong>org</strong>hum) upon the chemical composition of Pelibuey or Tabasco (P) and Polipay - Rambouillet<br />

(PR) lamb meat. Longissimus dorsi samples from the right side carcass of lambs (8 from each breed)<br />

were analysed.<br />

Key words: Maize, s<strong>org</strong>hum, lamb, Pelibuey, Polipay - Rambouillet.<br />

Introduction<br />

One of the foremost activities that maintain great importance in the socioeconomic context is<br />

the cattle; it provides manifold satisfactions to the humanity. The production of wool, skin, milk and<br />

meat are some of the elements operated by man; mainly the meat production is the most productive<br />

activity scattered in rural means, since it is still made in all the ecological regions of the country and in<br />

adverse conditions that do not allow the practice of other productive activities. 1,2<br />

The development of the country has implied in addition to the accelerated growth, and the<br />

concentration of the population in medium and great urban centers has had a strong impact in the<br />

demand and the habits of consumption of this type of meat, due to its attractive prices, requiring<br />

production systems that can generate sufficient volumes of animal origin products to supply to great<br />

cities. 2,3<br />

The meat of this type of animals is very spread in our country and the import levels are of<br />

334.000 heads reported for 1999, with a total production in our country of only 2%, numbers that<br />

have stayed constant until recent years; and the increase perspective of the consumption of this type<br />

of meat is of 5,4% for year 2000. 2<br />

According to the ovine races, the Pelibuey is the most in the lamb zones near City Mexico,<br />

mainly in the states of the coast of the gulf, in the Yucatan Peninsula and the states of the coast of the<br />

Pacific; observing a fast increase of this race in the mentioned regions. The flocks are operated in<br />

rudimentary form, without established programs of handling, genetic improvement or preventive cares<br />

causing a low gain of weight and its consequent long period of growth, due to the lack food that<br />

causes this cattle to grow up under excessive pasturing. 1,3,4<br />

The cross of ovines contributes to a uniform animal obtaining as far as the production and<br />

adaptation of the atmosphere where they are developed, besides they transmit their desirable<br />

characteristics with greater force. 1 In the crossing and cattle production some changes like rasher<br />

carcass greater speed of growth and a better yield when sacrificed have taken place. 5<br />

The Rambouillet race descends from the Spanish Merino and it is in the classification of fine<br />

wool races. From the beginning, this race was selected and developed so that it had a greater<br />

average size than the Spanish Merino and which provided one double aptitude, being able to produce<br />

as much wool as meat. They are great ovine, rustic and of fast growth; their skin are almost free of<br />

wrinkles, its conformation is acceptable for meat, although nonequal to the one of the races with that<br />

aptitude. The polipay lamb is of great interest because it develops a great productivity in the industry,<br />

and it is characterized to have an early puberty and short gestation. 6 The main foods for cattle are<br />

grouped in two great categories: foraging and concentrated foods. The concentrated ones include the<br />

energetic foods, which are made up of cereals, which are from the qualitative point of view the most<br />

important group of the energetic concentrated. 7

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