Predicting beef carcass meat, fat and bone proportions from carcass conformation and fat scores or hindquarter dissection

Equations for predicting the meat, fat and bone proportions in beef carcasses using the European Union carcass classification scores for conformation and fatness, and hindquarter composition were developed and their accuracy was tested using data from 662 cattle. The animals included bulls, steers a...

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Main Authors: S.B. Conroy, M.J. Drennan, M. McGee, M.G. Keane, D.A. Kenny, D.P. Berry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731109991121