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Meat productivity of steers of Simmental and Red Steppe breeds and their crosses with the Limousin breed

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Crossing Red Steppe and Simmental cows with Limousin bulls made it possible to increase carcass weight on average by 10.8%, carcass flesh weight by 9.0%, yield of first-grade meat by 2.7%, and protein quality index by 0.31.

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  1. Orenburg Agricultural Research Institute, Orenburg, 460051, Russia

    G. I. Bel’kov & V. A. Panin

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  1. G. I. Bel’kov
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Original Russian Text © G.I. Bel’kov, V.A. Panin, 2010, published in Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Sel’skokhozyaistvennykh Nauk, 2010, No. 5, pp. 33–35.

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Bel’kov, G.I., Panin, V.A. Meat productivity of steers of Simmental and Red Steppe breeds and their crosses with the Limousin breed. Russ. Agricult. Sci. 36, 362–365 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367410050137

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