Sentence examples for slaughter age from inspiring English sources

The pericardium tissue was collected from male animals at slaughter age.

However, observations continued until the pigs reached slaughter age, i.e. until about week 24.

Samples of Longissimus thoracis (LT) and subcutaneous fat (SF) from 214 Duroc barrows were collected from 160 days to slaughter age (220 days) using a longitudinal design.

Surgically castrated pigs fed with control diet without ractopamine reached the slaughter age 5.5 kg lighter (P<0.05) than those fed the diet with ractopamine.

In conclusion, carcass traits in both trials were more affected by slaughter age than by feed intensity and desirable grazing effects were achieved on the pasture.

Aim was to investigate how lighting schedules during incubation and their interactions with matched or mismatched lighting schedules post hatch affected bone development and leg health at slaughter age.

Slaughter ages revealed further differences in exploitation, with a larger focus on meat in the Dutch research area, and a larger emphasis on arable farming, transport and industry in the Swiss research area.

Full-sib families allowed for genetic information to be followed through both the sire and the dam and for both parents to be slaughtered so that carcass quality data could also be obtained from both of them at close to typical slaughter ages.

All animals of the same group (MF or W) were slaughtered on the same day and slaughter ages were chosen so as to obtain similar mean carcass weights in the two groups.

In Table 4, the total VWC is estimated for each category animal for up to the slaughtering age, where the CW from Table 3 and the VWC for drinking and service purposes for up to the slaughtering age are included.

The VWC for feed was calculated based on the amount of feed consumed by an animal, water consumption in feed production, and slaughtering age (Chapagain and Hoekstra 2003).