Potential exists to change, through breeding, the yield of individual primal carcass cuts in cattle without increasing overall carcass weight1.

ABSTRACT: The ability to alter the morphology of cattle towards greater yields of higher value primal cuts has the potential to increase the value of animals at slaughter. Using weight records of 14 primal cuts from 31,827 cattle, the objective of the present study was to quantify the extent of genetic variability in these primal cuts; also of interest was the degree of genetic variability in the primal cuts adjusted to a common carcass weight. Variance components were estimated for each primal cut using animal linear mixed models. The coefficient of genetic variation in the different primal cuts ranged from 0.05 (bavette) to 0.10 (eye of round) with a mean coefficient of genetic variation of 0.07. When phenotypically adjusted to a common carcass weight, the coefficient of genetic variation of the p

SUBMITTER: Judge MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6606483 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature