Morphological characteristics of the carcasses and bones of different departments of the skeleton of bull-calves of the antelope of Cannes

The research objective was studying morphological indicators of hulks and bones of the antelope of Cannes. The research of morphological structure and features of formation of a skeleton of bull-calves of antelopes of Cannes was carried out in the reserve Askaniya-Nova. The control slaughter of animals was made at the age of 6 and 60 months. In comparison with 6-month-old at 60-month-old bull-calves the absolute mass of the hulks increased by 3.75 times, muscular tissue - by 4.01 times, fatty - by 7.30 times, bone - by 2.79 times. The relative mass of muscular tissue in adult bull-calves increased by 4.66 %, fatty tissue - for 0.95 % while a bone tissue decreases by 5.47 %. The absolute mass of the bones of an axial skeleton increased with age by 3.02 times while relative weight increased by 3.67 %; the bones of peripheral skeleton - by 2.61 times, but the decreases made 3.66 % respectively. The greatest weight aged both 60, and 6 months in an axial skeleton occupied the edges and chest vertebras which absolute weight made 3 152 and 2 565 g, relative - 16.06 and 13.07 %, and in peripheral department - femoral and humeral, which weight made 1918 and 1798, or 9.77 and 9.16 %, respectively. At 60-month-old bull-calves protein content and fat in the longest e muscle latissimus dorsi increased by 0.57 and 0.71 %, in semi-membranous - by 0.73 and 0.59 %, respectively; the content of water decreased by 1.14 and 1.33 %.