Twelve steers have been used, when they had average live weight of 276kg, being four indubrasil and eight dairy crossbreeds (four crossbreeds HolsteinxGir and four HolsteinxGuzera). They have been weighted and distributed into two treatments (indubrasil and dairy crossbreeds), in phase fattening. The animals were studied up to 480kg of live weight. Grass hay Tifton 85 (Cynodon dactylon) have been used as feedstuff. After slaughtering samples of rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum and intestines have been collected after emptying and cleaning. Weight and samples values of blood, leather, feet, head, liver, kidneys, lung, tongue, spleen and internal fat (mesenterium plus perirenal and pericardia fats) have been collected. Empty body weight (EBW) have been obtained by summing weights of carcass, blood, leather, feet, tail, intestines and organs. The group head-foot-leather of indubrasil steers have been heaver than in dairy crossbreeds. The animals indubrasil and dairy crossbreeds, in fattening phase, have not presented significant differences for total weight of intestines and organs. The animals dairy crossbreeds present, in fattening phase, higher fat proportions intern than indubrasil animals.
carcass; leather; mesenterium fat
