Forty-eight Merino lambs were used to study the effect of feeding grape
pomace and others commonly used antioxidants on intake, animal performance and carcass
characteristics. Lambs were assigned to four treatments: control (50 UI of vitamin E per kg),
vitamin E (500 IU of vitamin E per kg), EGU (including 50 mg of grape seeds extract per kg)
and grape pomace (5% of grape pomace of red wine per kg). Lambs were slaughtered at 27
kg live weight. There were no significant differences between experimental treatments on
intake, average daily gain, carcass yield and carcass characteristics of lambs.
