Banca de DEFESA: JOSÉ ROBERTO FERREIRA PINHEIRO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JOSÉ ROBERTO FERREIRA PINHEIRO
DATE: 21/08/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório da Direção - EAJ/UFRN
TITLE:

SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SHEEP MEAT PRODUCTION IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE

KEY WORDS:

carcass, meat production chain, sheep meat production, sheep farming.

PAGES: 54
BIG AREA: Ciências Agrárias
AREA: Zootecnia
SUMMARY:

Understanding the lamb meat supply chain in Rio Grande do Norte is the foundation for improving the quality of the meat produced and its commercialization in the formal market. Lamb meat production faces obstacles that need to be understood and addressed, such as animals with poor zootechnical quality, the slaughter of older animals, and slaughterhouses with insufficient sanitary infrastructure, which makes it impossible to regularize them with official inspection services. The objective of this research was to evaluate the slaughter infrastructure and the slaughtered herd at the six main slaughterhouses located in Rio Grande do Norte. A total of 335 animals were evaluated for live weight, sex, approximate age at slaughter, BCS, carcass weight, carcass yield, and commercial meat destination. There was no defined breed standard for animals destined for slaughter. The average body condition score (3.0) was considered low, and the average age of 14.8 months was considered high. Regarding sex, 55.5% of the slaughtered animals were female, indicating low performance and compromising the replacement of herds, which will likely tend to shrink. It was also found that the slaughterhouses selected for the study lacked adequate infrastructure and sanitary conditions, being considered irregular from a health inspection perspective, leading to difficulties in marketing sheep meat in the formal market. It is concluded that sheep destined for slaughter in the State of Rio Grande do Norte do not have a defined racial standard and present an age and body condition score that are not suitable for meat production at the qualitative standard expected by the market, which compromises the consolidation of the sheep meat production chain.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - MILTON DANIEL BENITEZ OJEDA
Externo ao Programa - 1160199 - SERGIO MARQUES JUNIOR - nullPresidente - 2339534 - STELA ANTAS URBANO