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Carcass composition of New Zealand Saanen goats
Colomer-Rocher F, Kirton AH
Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 49, pp 147-152, Jan 1989
Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 49, pp 147-152, Jan 1989
Article class: Conference Presentation
Subject Terms: Animal production/wastage, Fat/lipids, Meat, Muscle/myology, Reproduction, Skeletal/bone/cartilage
Animal Type: Goat, Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant
Publisher: New Zealand Society of Animal ProductionAbstract
Eighteen entire male Saanen goats (liveweight range 5 to 115 kg; carcass weight range 2 to 52 kg; age range young to mature) and 19 females (liveweight range 17 to 64 kg; carcass weight range 8 to 32 kg age range several months to mature) were slaughtered. Carcasses were dissected into fat, muscle and bone. Based on allometric regression relationships an increase in carcass weight from 10 to 30 kg was accompanied by a decline in carcass muscle from 60.5 to 59.9% for the males, but from 61.8 to 51.5% for females. The greater decline in muscle content for the female carcasses reflected an increase in carcass fat content from 10.6 to 33.7%, while for male carcasses the increase was only from 11.7 to 15.5%. Over the same increase in carcass weight, carcass bone decreased from 24.7 to 14.1% for females, but only from 23.4 to 20.4% for males.The whole of the literary matter of the Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production is copyright New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Downloading this article signifies agreement with the terms and conditions of electronic access.