Influence of Slaughter Weight on Growth and Carcass Characteristics, Commercial Cutting and Curing Yields, and Meat Quality of Barrows and Gilts from Two Genotypes

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 925-933

  Cisneros, F ^a   Ellis, M ^a,b   McKeith, F K ^a   McCaw, J ^a   Fernando, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b 210 Animal Sciences Lab

Author keywords

Carcass composition; Genotypes; Growth rate; Meat quality; Pigs; Slaughter weight

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STANDARD; SWINE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MEAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE;

EID: 0030141342     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1996.745925x     Document Type: Article

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