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The association between commercial cut-out yield and gross chemical composition in market pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

H. Doornenbal  and
A. H. Martin
A. H. Martin
Affiliation:
Canada Department of Agriculture, Research Branch, Lacombe, Alberta
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In a study of 100 pig carcasses, representing a sample of the pigs used in previously reported work, gross chemical composition of the ham, shoulder, loin, belly and half carcass were determined for one side. Percentage yield (trimmed v. untrimmed) of picnic, butt, ham and loin (PBHL), and certain carcass measurements were recorded on the other side of the carcass. From the covariance analyses, it was concluded that backfat thickness of the carcass alone was of only moderate predictive value for total chemical carcass fat.

Carcass protein could, for most purposes, be predicted with satisfactory precision from the percentages of protein in the loin or in the ham, with residual standard deviations of 0·27 and 0·36% respectively.

Although percentage yield of lean cuts may be considered satisfactory for commercial evaluation of swine carcasses, it was not an accurate index of the true leanness of a carcass expressed as the percentage of chemically determined protein.

Multiple regression equations were computed for predicting the percentage of protein in the carcass and percentage yield of PBHL from conventional carcass measurements. The residual standard deviations for predicting the percentage of protein were 0·49 for the males and 0·42 for the females; for percentage yield of PBHL these were 1·31 and 1·22 respectively. Total backfat thickness was the most important single variable in predictions. Variances among sexes were non-homogeneous for the important traits, with the females in all cases showing the greater variability. The results of regression analysis within sex indicated that, for maximum precision, a separate prediction equation for each sex was required.

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Animal Production , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , October 1966 , pp. 445 - 455
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1966

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