Relationships between ultrasonic measurements taken on live cattle and their carcass composition

J.J. Bass

Ruakura Animal Research Station, Hamilton

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1979, 39: 217-222

The Danish ultrasonic scanner (Danscanner) was evaluated on cattle. Correlations between repeated scans by the same operator (0.95) and between different interpreters for the same scans (0.81) were calculated for subcutaneous fat depths. The fat depth and fat + skin depth ultrasonic measurements were also highly correlated with subcutaneous fat weight and percentage of fat in the left hindquarter. These preliminary results indicate that the Danscanner can be a useful tool in estimating composition in the live animal.

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