Abstract:Individual muscles, individual bones and fat depots from the non-carcass parts (head, foreshanks and tail) of 40 steers (chilled carcass weight 142-174 kg) were studied in an attempt to predict carcass composition more accurately than in an earlier study where the crude non-carcass parts, head, tongue, foreshanks and hindshanks were used.The technique did not improve the accuracy of prediction of muscle or bono. Carcass fat, which was calculated by difference in the earlier study, was predicted more accurately… Show more
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