Canonical discriminant analysis on the characterization of the goat carcass
Elizabete Cristina Batista da Costa Macena,
Roberto Germano Costa,
Wandrick Hauss de Sousa
et al.
Abstract:The objective of this work is to identify which carcass and cut characteristics have the best discriminatory power, between sexes and slaughter weights, through discriminant analysis. Were used 32 goats, with initial average weights of 3.11 kg for males and 3.06 kg, for females, for animals slaughtered at 70 days; 3.65 kg for males and 3.25 kg for females for animals slaughtered at 100 days of weight. Objective assessments consisted of morphometric measurements: external carcass length (ECL); internal carcass … Show more
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