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McPhee MJ. Predicting fat cover in beef cattle to make on-farm management decisions: a review of assessing fat and of modeling fat deposition. Transl Anim Sci 2024; 8:txae058. [PMID: 38800101 PMCID: PMC11125392 DOI: 10.1093/tas/txae058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Demands of domestic and foreign market specifications of carcass weight and fat cover, of beef cattle, have led to the development of cattle growth models that predict fat cover to assist on-farm managers make management decisions. The objectives of this paper are 4-fold: 1) conduct a brief review of the biological basis of adipose tissue accretion, 2) briefly review live and carcass assessments of beef cattle, and carcass grading systems used to develop quantitative compositional and quality indices, 3) review fat deposition models: Davis growth model (DGM), French National Institute for Agricultural Research growth model (IGM), Cornell Value Discovery System (CVDS), and BeefSpecs drafting tool (BeefSpecsDT), and 4) appraise the process of translating science and practical skills into research/decision support tools that assist the Beef industry improve profitability. The r2 for live and carcass animal assessments, using several techniques across a range of species and traits, ranged from 0.61 to 0.99 and from 0.52 to 0.99, respectively. Model evaluations of DGM and IGM were conducted using Salers heifers (n = 24) and Angus-Hereford steers (n = 15) from an existing publication and model evaluations of CVDS and BeefSpecsDT were conducted using Angus steers (n = 33) from a research trial where steers were grain finished for 101 d in a commercial feedlot. Evaluating the observed and predicted fat mass (FM) is the focus of this review. The FM mean bias for Salers heifers were 7.5 and 1.3 kg and the root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) were 31.2 and 27.8 kg and for Angus-Hereford steers the mean bias were -4.0 and -10.5 kg and the RMSEP were 9.14 and 21.5 kg for DGM and IGM, respectively. The FM mean bias for Angus steers were -5.61 and -2.93 kg and the RMSEP were 12.3 and 13.4 kg for CVDS and BeefSpecsDT, respectively. The decomposition for bias, slope, and deviance were 21%, 12%, and 68% and 5%, 4%, and 91% for CVDS and BeefSpecsDT, respectively. The modeling efficiencies were 0.38 and 0.27 and the models were within a 20 kg level of tolerance 91% and 88% for CVDS and BeefSpecsDT, respectively. Fat deposition models reported in this review have the potential to assist the beef industry make on-farm management decisions on live cattle before slaughter and improve profitability. Modelers need to continually assess and improve their models but with a caveat of 1) striving to minimize inputs, and 2) choosing on-farm inputs that are readily available.
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- Malcolm J McPhee
- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Livestock Industries Centre, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Zeng Q, Du ZQ. Advances in the discovery of genetic elements underlying longissimus dorsi muscle growth and development in the pig. Anim Genet 2023; 54:709-720. [PMID: 37796678 DOI: 10.1111/age.13365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Revised: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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As a major source of protein in human diets, pig meat plays a crucial role in ensuring global food security. Key determinants of meat production refer to the chemical and physical compositions or characteristics of muscle fibers, such as the number, hypertrophy potential, fiber-type conversion and intramuscular fat deposition. However, the growth and formation of muscle fibers comprises a complex process under spatio-temporal regulation, that is, the intermingled and concomitant proliferation, differentiation, migration and fusion of myoblasts. Recently, with the fast and continuous development of next-generation sequencing technology, the integration of quantitative trait loci mapping with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has greatly helped animal geneticists to discover and explore thousands of functional or causal genetic elements underlying muscle growth and development. However, owing to the underlying complex molecular mechanisms, challenges to in-depth understanding and utilization remain, and the cost of large-scale sequencing, which requires integrated analyses of high-throughput omics data, is high. In this review, we mainly elaborate on research advances in integrative analyses (e.g. GWAS, omics) for identifying functional genes or genomic elements for longissimus dorsi muscle growth and development for different pig breeds, describing several successful transcriptome analyses and functional genomics cases, in an attempt to provide some perspective on the future functional annotation of genetic elements for muscle growth and development in pigs.
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- Qingjie Zeng
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
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Nunes CLDC, Vilela RSR, Schultz EB, Hannas MI, Chizzotti ML. Assessing dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry prediction of intramuscular fat content in beef longissimus steaks. Meat Sci 2023; 197:109076. [PMID: 36535231 DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.109076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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This study assessed the capability of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) to predict intramuscular fat (IMF) content of beef longissimus steaks against chemical IMF as the gold standard. DEXA performance of fat% prediction was assessed using a leave-one-out cross validation method among Angus and Nellore steaks, which generated a chemical fat% range of 14.05-36.82% and 2.46-7.84%, respectively, and using pooled data. There was a significant positive association between DEXA predicted fat and chemical fat content. However, higher precision was found for pooled data (R2 = 0.95, RMSECV = 1.95) and Angus (R2 = 0.75, RMSECV = 2.39) than Nellore (R2 = 0.15, RMSECV = 1.22) group. Accuracy also had the same response with average slope values close to 1 for pooled data and Angus and a lower value (0.42) for Nellore group. DEXA precisely predicts IMF content across a wide range of fat content. However, its precision and accuracy of prediction within low-fat content samples are lower than in high-fat content.
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- Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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Xavier C, Morel I, Dohme-Meier F, Siegenthaler R, Le Cozler Y, Lerch S. Estimation of carcass chemical composition in beef-on-dairy cattle using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans of cold half-carcass or 11th rib cut. J Anim Sci 2023; 101:skad380. [PMID: 37950488 PMCID: PMC10718802 DOI: 10.1093/jas/skad380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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The aim of the present study was to estimate the chemical composition (water, lipid, protein, mineral, and energy contents) of carcasses measured postmortem using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans of cold half-carcass or 11th rib cut. One hundred and twenty beef-on-dairy (dam: Swiss Brown, sire: Angus, Limousin, or Simmental) bulls (n = 66), heifers (n = 42), and steers (n = 12) were included in the study. The reference carcass composition measured after grinding, homogenization, and chemical analyses was estimated from DXA variables using simple or multiple linear regressions with model training on 70% (n = 84) and validation on 30% (n = 36) of the observations. In the validation step, the estimates of water and protein masses from the half-carcass (R2 = 0.998 and 0.997; root mean square error of prediction [RMSEP], 1.0 and 0.5 kg, respectively) and 11th rib DXA scans (R2 = 0.997 and 0.996; RMSEP, 1.5 and 0.5 kg, respectively) were precise. Lipid mass was estimated precisely from the half-carcass DXA scan (R2 = 0.990; RMSEP = 1.0 kg) with a slightly lower precision from the 11th rib DXA scan (R2 = 0.968; RMSEP = 1.7 kg). Mineral mass was estimated from half-carcass (R² = 0.975 and RMSEP = 0.3 kg) and 11th rib DXA scans (R2 = 0.947 and RMSEP = 0.4 kg). For the energy content, the R2 values ranged from 0.989 (11th rib DXA scan) to 0.996 (half-carcass DXA scan), and the RMSEP ranged from 36 (half-carcass) to 55 MJ (11th rib). The proportions of water, lipids, and energy in the carcasses were also precisely estimated (R2 ≥ 0.882) using either the half-carcass (RMSEP ≤ 1.0%) or 11th rib-cut DXA scans (RMSEP ≤ 1.3%). Precision was lower for the protein and mineral proportions (R2 ≤ 0.794, RMSEP ≤ 0.5%). The cattle category (sex and breed of sire) effect was observed only in some estimative models for proportions from the 11th rib cut. In conclusion, DXA imaging of either a cold half-carcass or 11th rib cut is a precise method for estimating the chemical composition of carcasses from beef-on-dairy cattle.
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- Caroline Xavier
- Ruminant Nutrition and Emissions, Agroscope, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
- PEGASE INRAE-Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, 16 Le Clos, 35590 Saint-Gilles, France
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- Ruminant Nutrition and Emissions, Agroscope, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
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- PEGASE INRAE-Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, 16 Le Clos, 35590 Saint-Gilles, France
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- Ruminant Nutrition and Emissions, Agroscope, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
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Maeda SS, Albergaria BH, Szejnfeld VL, Lazaretti-Castro M, Arantes HP, Ushida M, Domiciano DS, Pereira RMR, Marin-Mio RV, de Oliveira ML, de Mendonça LMC, do Prado M, de Souza GC, Palchetti CZ, Sarni ROS, Terreri MT, de Castro LCG, Artoni SMB, Amoroso L, Karcher DE, Prado CM, Gonzalez MC, de Medeiros Pinheiro M. Official Position of the Brazilian Association of Bone Assessment and Metabolism (ABRASSO) on the evaluation of body composition by densitometry-part II (clinical aspects): interpretation, reporting, and special situations. Adv Rheumatol 2022; 62:11. [PMID: 35365246 DOI: 10.1186/s42358-022-00240-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To present an updated and evidence-based guideline for the use of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to assess body composition in clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS This Official Position was developed by the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Association of Bone Assessment and Metabolism (Associação Brasileira de Avaliação Óssea e Osteometabolismo, ABRASSO) and experts in the field who were invited to contribute to the preparation of this document. The authors searched current databases for relevant publications in the area of body composition assessment. In this second part of the Official Position, the authors discuss the interpretation and reporting of body composition parameters assessed by DXA and the use of DXA for body composition evaluation in special situations, including evaluation of children, persons with HIV, and animals. CONCLUSION This document offers recommendations for the use of DXA in body composition evaluation, including indications, interpretation, and applications, to serve as a guiding tool in clinical practice and research for health care professionals in Brazil.
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- Sergio Setsuo Maeda
- Discipline of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Estado de Israel, 639, São Paulo, SP, CEP: 04022-001, Brazil.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil
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- Discipline of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Discipline of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Estado de Israel, 639, São Paulo, SP, CEP: 04022-001, Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Instituto Master de Ensino Presidente Antônio Carlos (IMEPAC), Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
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- Discipline of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Discipline of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Discipline of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Estado de Israel, 639, São Paulo, SP, CEP: 04022-001, Brazil
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- Discipline of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Estado de Israel, 639, São Paulo, SP, CEP: 04022-001, Brazil
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- Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Discipline of Allergy, Clinical Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Section of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP), Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil
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- School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP), Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Division of Human Nutrition, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Postgraduate Program in Health and Behavior, Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel), Pelotas, RS, Brazil.,Postgraduate Program in Nutrition and Food, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Pelotas, RS, Brazil
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- Discipline of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Leighton PL, Segura JD, Lam SD, Marcoux M, Wei X, Lopez-Campos OD, Soladoye P, Dugan ME, Juarez M, PRIETO NURIA. Prediction of carcass composition and meat and fat quality using sensing technologies: A review. MEAT AND MUSCLE BIOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.22175/mmb.12951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Consumer demand for high-quality healthy food is increasing, thus meat processors require the means toassess these rapidly, accurately, and inexpensively. Traditional methods forquality assessments are time-consuming, expensive, invasive, and have potentialto negatively impact the environment. Consequently, emphasis has been put onfinding non-destructive, fast, and accurate technologies for productcomposition and quality evaluation. Research in this area is advancing rapidlythrough recent developments in the areas of portability, accuracy, and machinelearning. The present review, therefore, critically evaluates and summarizes developmentsof popular non-invasive technologies (i.e., from imaging to spectroscopicsensing technologies) for estimating beef, pork, and lamb composition andquality, which will hopefully assist in the implementation of thesetechnologies for rapid evaluation/real-timegrading of livestock products in the nearfuture.
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Kasper C, Schlegel P, Ruiz-Ascacibar I, Stoll P, Bee G. Accuracy of predicting chemical body composition of growing pigs using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Animal 2021; 15:100307. [PMID: 34273875 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2021.100307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 05/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Studies in animal science assessing nutrient and energy efficiency or determining nutrient requirements benefit from gathering exact measurements of body composition or body nutrient contents. Those are acquired by standardized dissection or by grinding the body followed by wet chemical analysis, respectively. The two methods do not result in the same type of information, but both are destructive. Harnessing human medical imaging techniques for animal science can enable repeated measurements of individuals over time and reduce the number of individuals required for research. Among imaging techniques, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is particularly promising. However, the measurements obtained with DXA do not perfectly match dissections or chemical analyses, requiring the adjustment of the DXA via calibration equations. Several calibration regressions have been published, but comparative studies of those regression equations and whether they are applicable to different data sets are pending. Thus, it is currently not clear whether existing regression equations can be directly used to convert DXA measurements into chemical values or whether each individual DXA device will require its own calibration. Our study builds prediction equations that relate body composition to the content of single nutrients in growing entire male pigs (BW range 20-100 kg) as determined by both DXA and chemical analyses, with R2 ranging between 0.89 for ash and 0.99 for water and CP. Moreover, we show that the chemical composition of the empty body can be satisfactorily determined by DXA scans of carcasses, with the prediction error ranging between 4.3% for CP and 12.6% for ash. Finally, we compare existing prediction equations for pigs of a similar range of BWs with the equations derived from our DXA measurements and evaluate their fit with our chemical analysis data. We found that existing equations for absolute contents that were built using the same DXA beam technology predicted our data more precisely than equations based on different technologies and percentages of fat and lean mass. This indicates that the creation of generic regression equations that yield reliable estimates of body composition in pigs of different growth stages, sexes and genetic breeds could be achievable in the near future. DXA may be a promising tool for high-throughput phenotyping for genetic studies, because it efficiently measures body composition in a large number and wide array of animals.
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- C Kasper
- Agroscope, Swine Research Unit, Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland; Agroscope, Animal Genophenomics Group, Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland.
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- Agroscope, Swine Research Unit, Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
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- Agroscope, Swine Research Unit, Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
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- Agroscope, Swine Research Unit, Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
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- Agroscope, Swine Research Unit, Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland
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Masoumi M, Marcoux M, Maignel L, Pomar C. Weight prediction of pork cuts and tissue composition using spectral graph wavelet. J FOOD ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2021.110501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Segura J, Aalhus JL, Prieto N, Larsen IL, Juárez M, López-Campos Ó. Carcass and Primal Composition Predictions Using Camera Vision Systems (CVS) and Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) Technologies on Mature Cows. Foods 2021; 10:foods10051118. [PMID: 34070040 PMCID: PMC8158109 DOI: 10.3390/foods10051118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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This study determined the potential of computer vision systems, namely the whole-side carcass camera (HCC) compared to the rib-eye camera (CCC) and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) technology to predict primal and carcass composition of cull cows. The predictability (R2) of the HCC was similar to the CCC for total fat, but higher for lean (24.0%) and bone (61.6%). Subcutaneous fat (SQ), body cavity fat, and retail cut yield (RCY) estimations showed a difference of 6.2% between both CVS. The total lean meat yield (LMY) estimate was 22.4% better for CCC than for HCC. The combination of HCC and CCC resulted in a similar prediction of total fat, SQ, and intermuscular fat, and improved predictions of total lean and bone compared to HCC/CCC. Furthermore, a 25.3% improvement was observed for LMY and RCY estimations. DXA predictions showed improvements in R2 values of 26.0% and 25.6% compared to the HCC alone or the HCC + CCC combined, respectively. These results suggest the feasibility of using HCC for predicting primal and carcass composition. This is an important finding for slaughter systems, such as those used for mature cattle in North America that do not routinely knife rib carcasses, which prevents the use of CCC.
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Schroeder B, Andretta I, Kipper M, Franceschi CH, Remus A. Empirical modelling the quality of pelleted feed for broilers and pigs. Anim Feed Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2020.114522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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