Live animal and carcass characteristics of South African…南非的活体动物和胴体特征.pdfVIP

South African Journal of Animal Science 2011, 41 (no 1) Live animal and carcass characteristics of South African indigenous goats 1# 2 3 L. Simela , E.C. Webb , M.J.C. Bosman 1 National Emergent Red Meat Producers’ Organisation, P.O. Box 36461, Menlo Park, Pretoria 0102, South Africa 2Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria 0002, South Africa 3School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa Copyright resides with the authors in terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South African Licence. See: /licenses/by/2.5/za/ Condition of use: The user may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, but must recognise the authors and the South African Journal of Animal Science ________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Eighty-nine intact male, castrates and female South African indigenous goats in three age groups (0, 2 - 6 and 8 permanent incisors) and two pre-slaughter conditioning groups; namely, the non-conditioned which were slaughtered within three months of purchase and the pre-slaughter conditioned, which were slaughtered 6 - 10 months after purchase or birth were used. The effect of sex, age and pre-slaughter conditioning on live animal, carcass dimensions and carcass composition were evaluated. The goats were large with live weight, carcass weight and carca