the present study was carried out to establish the relationships between carcass yield and some body measurements in lori goat breed. the first body weight (bw) and morphological traits of 186 heads goat were recorded. the animals were then slaughtered to calculate the carcass yield. results showed the colinearity among the traits. in order to eliminate colinearity problems, principal component...

background and objectives: dried pulps and peels of ziziphus jujuba fruits are commonly applied as food because of their high nutritional value. it has been widely used in traditional medicine as laxative, tonic, wound healing agent and appetizer. the aim of this study was to evaluate the anti-melanogenic effects of z. jujuba fruit. methods: fruit extracts were obtained by two different extract...

A new carcass EPD has been developed for the American Angus Association’s National Carcass Evaluation Program. A percentage of retail product EPD combines the traditional carcass traits (hot carcass weight, fat thickness, ribeye area and KPH) into a composite EPD. Although the heritabilitty for this trait (.25) is not the highest for the carcass traits, it is high enough for breeders to make si...

Thirty-two Santa Inês male lambs, not castrated, were distributed in a randomized block design to evaluate the effects of different tropical forage cultivars (two Panicum maximum (Syn. Megathyrsus maximus): Aruana and Massai, two Brachiaria brizantha Urochloa brizantha) Marandu Piatã) on carcass characteristics, quality, physical composition, meat chemistry. The data subjected an analysis varia...

The full annealing AA6061 aluminum alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformationvia the combination of equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and cold rolling (CR) in order torefine its microstructure and to improve its mechanical properties. According to the results of hotand cold tensile tests, the combination of ECAP and CR significantly affected the final strengthand ductility of studied...

Hot boning of beef and sheep carcases has distinct advantages over cold boning. The warm meat is soft and requires less effort to bone, occupational overuse injuries are less likely to occur, there is potential for improved yield, and expensive chilling of fat and bones is avoided. There are also benefits in terms of certain processing qualities when hot boned meat is used to manufacture meat p...

Additive genetic Angus-Brahman differences, heterosis effects, and least squares means for six carcass and six meat palatability traits were estimated using data from 1367 steers from the Angus-Brahman multibreed herd of the University of Florida collected from 1989 to 2009. Brahman carcasses had higher dressing percent (P<0.0001), lower marbling (P<0.0001), smaller ribeye area (P<0.0001), and ...

Thirty-two Angus steers were used in a 140d feeding trial to examine the effects of ad libitum feed intake or a programmed rate of gain on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics. Ad libitum-fed steers had greater (P < .06) DMI, ADG, and feed efficiency from d 0 to 28, 0 to 56, and 0 to 84 than programmed-fed steers; however, no differences in ADG, DMI, or feed efficiency were detected ...

the aim followed in the present paper was to evaluate the slaughter body and carcass weights as well as the characteristics of hide and leather in dromedaries (one-hump) and in the crossbred (c. bactrianus×c. droedarius) camels. fourteen camels from each sex (female and male) representing two genotypes at 21 months of age were utilized. slaughter weight, hot and cold carcass weights, dressing-o...