Relationship of size and marbling score of hump with carcass characteristics in bovines slaughtered in an abattoir in Villavicencio

摘要

Todeterminetherelationshipofmeasurementsofthehumpwithcarcasscattletraitswereevaluatedcarcassofzebumales(n=200)inaslaughterhouse(Colombianeast).StatisticalmodelincludedasindependentvariablesheightandmarblingscoreofthehumpanddependentvariablesSlaughterweight,hotcarcassweight,carcassyield,fatcoverscoreandKPHfatweight.Fortheanalysis,itusedregressionanalysisandcorrelationsbetweenvariablesandheightandmarblingofthehump.Theaverageofhumpheight(AG),marblingscoreatthehump(EG),hotcarcassweight(PCC),carcassyield(RC),KPHfatweight(GV)andfatcoverscore(GC)were15.3±5.77cm,3.72±1.58,452±47.5kg,254±27kg,56.4±2.1%,10.4±0.92kgnbsp;y2.19±1.02,respectively.AGwascorrelatedwithandRC(0.326),PCC(0.231)andEG(0.226).AndEGwerecorrelatedwithGC(0.348)andAG(0.226).TheseresultsindicatethepossibilityofincludingmeasuresofthehumptocomplementtheassessmentsofquantitativeandqualitativecharacteristicsoftypeZebucattlecarcass.nbsp;