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The allometric relationship between carcass muscle and carcass bone in Scottish Blackface sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

T. H. Jackson
T. H. Jackson
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School of Agriculture, Edinburgh 9
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Thirty-seven Blackface wether sheep, ranging from birth to eighteen months of age, were used to derive the allometric relationship between carcass muscle and carcass bone.

The equation

log10 muscle (g) = 1·36 log10 bone (g)—0·804

fitted the data well. (r = 0·995, b = 1·36±0·05, Sy.x = 0·0595.)

The deviations from this equation had a coefficient of variation of 14% indicating that other factors may influence the relationship of muscle to bone.

It is suggested that the variable

log10M—1·36 log10 5 + 0·804

is independent of differences due to different stages of natural development and can be used to examine the effects of different treatments on the muscle: bone ratio. The constant applies to sheep only.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 1967 , pp. 531 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1967

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