Data (n = 1,746) collected from 1985 through 1995 on Korean Native Cattle by the National Livestock Research Institute of Korea were used to estimate genetic parameters for marbling score, dressing percentage, and longissimus muscle area, with backfat thickness, slaughter age, or slaughter weight as covariates. Estimates were obtained with REML. Model 1 included animal genetic and residual rand...

A pig changes over time: it puts on weight and eats more, as it becomes larger. Different pigs grow in a different manner. There is evidence that these differences in growth patterns between pigs are caused by genetic factors. This gives the opportunity to select for these different growth patterns, to better meet the demands of markets that differ in desired slaughter weight, eg Bacon, fresh p...

One of the main objectives of selection for beef cattle is weight at slaughter. Live weights along growth are currently used as selection criteria under the hypothesis of a positive genetic correlation with weight at slaughter. In this study we have used data for weight at 120 (W120) and 210 (W210) days and at slaughter (WS) and the gain of weight between them (∆120-210 and ∆210-WS) in the Pire...

A total of 144 male crossbred calves were allocated to four management treatments (bulls; steers; bulls implanted with zeranol at 100 d of age and re-implanted at 69, 93 and 56 d thereafter; bulls implanted with zeranol at 168 d of age and re-implanted at 93 and 56 d thereafter), and two pre-slaughter shipping treatments (minimum pre-slaughter stress with cattle shipped and slaughtered within 4...

The aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for slaughter weight, and carcass fleshiness and fatness in Finnish Ayrshire and Holstein-Friesian bulls and heifers. Animal model, sire model and sire maternal grandsire model were tested for their suitability to evaluate young sires in progeny test. There were 38 188 records on animals slaughtered in two slaughter houses during a period...

Genetic and sex differences or variation in carcass characteristic and slaughter yield were studied using a total of 150 intensively reared and clinically normal chickens consisted of 50 each of normal feather, naked neck and frizzled matured chickens genotypes. The result showed that genotype as well as sex have significant effect (P<0.05) on carcass characteristics and slaughter yield at twen...

This study aimed to evaluate myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoform expression and muscle fiber types of Longissimus dorsi (LD) and Semitendinosus (ST) in Mediterranean buffaloes and possible fibers muscles modulation according to different slaughter weights. The presence of MyHC IIb isoforms was not found. Only three isoforms of MyHC (IIa, IIx/d and I) were observed and their percentages did not va...

Effect of milk yield (MY) on biological efficiency and gross margin as an indicator of profit potential of beef production from birth to slaughter was determined. Data included 9 yr of spring-born single male calves. Biological efficiency was calculated as carcass weight/total feed energy intake, including nonlactating and lactating intakes of cow and creep and feedlot intakes of calf. Slaughte...