Relation between Carcass Composition and Live Weight of Sheep

Name: Relation between Carcass Composition and Live Weight of Sheep
Creator: N M, TULLOH
Keywords: 2. Zero hunger, Sheep, Body Weight, Body Composition, Animals

N M, TULLOH

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Relation between Carcass Composition and Live Weight of Sheep

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 1963 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 197, pages 809-810 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: N M, TULLOH;

doi: 10.1038/197809b0

pmid: 13994747

Relation between Carcass Composition and Live Weight of Sheep

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A RE-EXAMINATION of the work of Hammond1, Wallace2,3, Palsson and Verges4,5, and Wardrop6, suggests that the carcass composition of a sheep, in terms of dissected bone, muscle and fat, is more closely related to its live weight than to its age. Using all the available data from these papers, including ewes and wethers irrespective of breed, age, stage of pregnancy and nutritional history and ram lambs up to the age of 2 weeks, the following regression equations have been computed for estimating the body composition of sheep from empty live weight (that is, the weight of the live animal at slaughter minus the contents of its alimentary tract):

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Sheep, Body Weight, Body Composition, Animals

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