The experiment was carried out to study the components proportions, non-carcass of the body weight and their relative growth. It was used 45 lambs: 22 non-castrated male and 23 females of Texel breed. From that group, 7 were slaughtered in the beginning of the experiment and the others when they reached 25 or 33 kg. A randomly delineation adopted was by a factorial arrangement of 3:2:2 (three methods, two sexes and two weights of slaughter). The head and paws proportions decreased with elevation of the slaughter weight with values of 4.44% and 2.63% to 25 kg; 3.76% and 2.43% to 33 kg, respectively. Among sex, the main proportion of the kidney fat was reached 33 kg to females and among the weights of slaughter. The skin, liver and heart proportions did not distinguished among feeding methods, sexes and weights of slaughter. The large proportion of rumen and small net was for lambs weaned in 45 days, but between sexes and weights of slaughter was similar. The paws, heart, kidney, lung and trachea relative growth is premature, whereas to skin, liver and kidney fat is isometric, in relation to the weight of the empty body. The rumen+small net had premature growth regardless sex and feeding methods with coefficients ranging from 2.22 to 2.47.
components live weight; yield; allometric coefficients; sheep
