CRC 'Regional Combinations' project: effects of genetics and growth paths on beef production and meat quality: experimental design, methods and measurements

Title
CRC 'Regional Combinations' project: effects of genetics and growth paths on beef production and meat quality: experimental design, methods and measurements
Publication Date
2005
Author(s)
McKiernan, W A
Wilkins, J F
Barwick, Stephen
Tudor, G D
McIntyre, Brooke Louise
Graham, J F
Deland, M P B
Davies, L
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1071/EA05061
UNE publication id
une:2890
Abstract
As a component of the second term of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Cattle and Beef Quality, a project to further test and validate the effects of varying nutritional growth paths pre-finishing and slaughter on cattle of varying genetic potential for meat yield and eating quality was designed and implemented. This project, 'Regional Combinations', was a multi-site experiment, using 'Bos taurus' cattle generated at 4 locations across southern Australia. The design of imposing different growth paths between weaning and finishing on cattle with specific genetic potential is common across sites. Treatment and interaction effects on beef production and meat quality were examined within and across sites. This paper describes the experimental designs, generation of experimental cattle at the various sites and the measurements, collection and storage of the data for multi-site analyses.
Link
Citation
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 45(8), p. 959-969
ISSN
1446-5574
0816-1089
1836-5787
1836-0939
Start page
959
End page
969

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