Genetic parameters for
lean meat yield, meat quality, reproduction and feed efficiency traits for Australian pigs: 2.
Video image analysis in the Australian meat industry--precision and accuracy of predicting
lean meat yield in lamb carcasses, Meat Science, Vol.
He scored top marks for
lean meat yield, rib-eye size and carcase weight.
The verdict was that the Texel excelled in carcass quality and in particular, in
lean meat yield.
It is also similar to the estimate of +0.70 between the predicted lean meat percentage and the actual
lean meat yield percentage of the 10-12th rib section of Canadian beef cattle reported by Bergen et al.
Recording muscle depth is a direct assessment of an animal's muscularity and therefore likely conformation and
lean meat yield. Here, positive values indicate higher muscularity within a breed.
The
lean meat yield was calculated as the ratio between the weight of lean meat (ham with bone, blade shoulder, boneless shoulder and boneless rack) and the standard carcass (half carcass weight minus the weight of the head, feet, tail and lard) as suggested by Rose (2001).
The
lean meat yield in carcass can be estimated by determination of eye muscle area (Szucs, 2002).
This, he said, failed to adequately reward farmers like him who had managed to drive up
lean meat yields from their stock.