Comparison of Basic Fattening Performance of Cattle Breeds Used in Meat Production in Turkiye

Abstract

In Türkiye, 98.5% of cattle in registered farms consist of dual purpose breeds. This also indicates how low the rate of use of beef cattle breeds in meat production is. However, feed efficiency, daily live weight gain and meat quality of beef cattle breeds are high and this is important in terms of farm economy and market quality. In this study, cattle breeds used for meat production in Türkiye and their performances were compared. According to the results, it was observed that the mean slaughter age of the breeds varied between 545.6±3.10 days and 619.1±3.03 days. Galloways came to the fore among all other breeds in terms of carcass weight and gain in carcass weight per day (P