Grading of Cattle

GRADING OF CATTLE

  • In live cattle the traits of maturity or conformation are rather easily recognised after some training and experience.
  • It is very difficult to estimate marbling on a live animal.
  • The use of supplemental information or details such as length of time on feed, composition of ration, genetic background may be at times help in estimating marbling on live animal.
  • Some characteristics on live animals such as fullness of fore and rear flanks, fullness of twist, the fleshing between the hindlegs may relate to overall firmness and therefore indirectly the marbling. 
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