An experiment was carried out at the Sheep Production Sector of Federal University of Lavras to study the allometric growth of bone, muscular and fat tissues of commercial joints in lambs. Twenty-four Santa Ines lambs were used. The animals were kept confined in individual pens and fed ad libitum. The animals were slaughtered when they reached the target live weight of 15, 25, 35 and 45 kg. After the carcass had been dressed and chilled, the commercial joints were obtained from the left half part. The amount of the different tissues were got through the dissection of the leg, lion, rib, breast and shoulder. The allometric study was carried out using the model developed by HUXLEY(1932). The allometric coefficient of bone was lower than 1, the coefficient for the fat tissue was higher than 1 in all joints, and the muscular tissue in the ribs and shoulder were analysed for these joints, the coefficient was not different from 1.
allometric; Santa Ines; tissue bone; tissue fat; tissue muscle
