TERMINAÇÃO DE CORDEIROS AO PÉ DA MÃE EM PASTAGEM CULTIVADA DE AZEVÉM (Lolium multiflorum L.) + TREVO VERMELHO (Trifolium pratense L.) COM E SEM O EMPREGO DA ALIMENTAÇÃO PRIVATIVA AO CORDEIRO

Abstract

The experiment objectified the termination of lambs to the foot of the mother in pasture cultivated of ryegrass and red clover with and without creep-feeding to the lamb. Evaluations in the performance, characteristics of carcass, production of commercial cuts and production of the components had been carried through not-carcass in the lambs kept to the foot of the mother and submitted to the alimentary treatments: PAST = pasture cultivated of ryegrass and red clover; APT = pasture cultivated of ryegrass and red clover + creep-feeding to the lamb during all the period of use of the grass; AP42 = pasture cultivated of ryegrass and red clover + creep-feeding to the lamb from 42 days after beginning of the use of the grass. For all the evaluated parameters of the grass, did not have interaction (P>0.05) between treatment and period, did not have difference between treatments (P>0.05) for the parameters evaluated in the grass. Animals that had received creep-feeding had presented greater (P<0.05) profit of daily average weight and lesser (P<0.05) number of days to reach the weight established of slaughter in relation to that they had only remained in pasture. The components carcass had not differed (P>0.05) in the alimentary treatments. The weight of slaughter of 28 kg was only reached in 43, 71 and 86% of the animals of treatments PAST, AP42 and APT, respectively. The job of creep-feeding better does not provide to quality and nor carcass yield, for the lambs slaughtered with 28kg. In handling pastures of similar form, the creep-feeding promotes additive effect on the efficiency of termination of the animals.