CARCASS SHAPE

BY MATTHEW BRACE
MORE sophisticated analysis of meat yields from carcasses are required say researchers from New Zealand's Massey University, who have concluded that valuing carcasses on their shape could be biased towards certain breeds, They found relationships between carcass shape and meat yield are not always consistent for different groups of animals, which can have different muscle to bone ratios.



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