The study pertains to the carcass traits of thirty yearling Sahabadi ewes that were raised under the semi intensive conditions by farmers in Bardhamman district of West Bengal. Sahabadi is one of the least studied sheep and owes its origin to Sahabad district of Bihar. The sheep bears coarse wool and is leggy. The results indicate that the dressing percentage of the ewes were low (39%). The wei...

Prediction equations for pork carcass lean percentage are widely used in Extension, teaching, and research. Prediction equations using carcass or live animal measurements are used in carcass contests, live animal evaluation, and marketing. Fat–free lean gain is used to estimate the daily lysine requirements for pigs in swine nutrition guides. The use of inaccurate equations has substantial econ...

Chianina is the tallest and heaviest beef cattle breed in the world and 1 of the most appreciated breeds on the Italian meat market. A selection program focused on improving Chianina carcass quality could provide a further economic advantage to Chianina breeders. However, the current European carcass scoring system [i.e., the SEUROP (S=superior, E=excellent, U= very good, R=good, O=fair, and P=...

The study was carried out to evaluate the effect of genotypes and concentrate levels on growth performance and carcass characteristics of Bati, Hararghe highland (HH) and Short eared Somali (SS) goat types found in Ethiopia. A 3 × 2 factorial arrangement (3 genotype × 2 concentrate levels) was used to randomly allocate 36 goats (15.2 ± 0.30 kg initial weight); 12 goats from each genotype with a...

This study was designed to evaluate growth performance, carcass cutting yield, and processing characteristics of boneless hams and bellies from finishing pigs fed diets containing 0, 5, 10, or 20 ppm of the phenethanolamine ractopamine hydrochloride (RAC). Sixty pigs were blocked by starting weight and randomly assigned to pens (four pigs/pen) within each of three blocks. Treatments were then r...

The present study was aimed to compare the developmental changes of carcass composition, meat quality characteristics and organ weight in pigs of different breeds. Six pigs (sex balance) of each breed were slaughtered at 35, 80 and 125 days of age, respectively. The carcass was chilled and the left carcass side was dissected into bone, lean meat, fat and skin; additionally, organ weight and mea...

The present study was carried out to study the carcass and meat quality traits of two breeds of [New Zealand White (NZW) and Californian (CAL)] under environmental conditions in Egypt. Two hundred of NZW and CAL (100 rabbits of each bread of 50 males and 50 females) aged and slaughtered at 12 weeks .The following traits were recorded: body weight at slaughter age carcass weight, meat, fat and a...

Meat-type (Boer x Spanish and Spanish) goats from two feeding regimens (feedlot and range) were slaughtered and live and carcass weights were obtained. At 24 h after death, various yield and quality measurements were collected. One side from each carcass was fabricated into major wholesale cuts for dissection into major carcass components. Feedlot goats had heavier (P<.05) live and carcass weig...

Commercial slaughter steers (n = 329) and heifers (n = 335) were selected to vary in slaughter frame size and muscle thickness score, as well as adjusted 12th rib fat thickness. After USDA carcass grade data collection, one side of each carcass was fabricated into boneless primals/subprimals and minor tissue components. Cuts were trimmed to 2.54, 1.27, and .64 cm of external fat, except for the...