ANSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intramuscular Fat, Poland China, Chester White
Document Summary
We eat more pork now than we have in the past. Number of hog operations has decreased over the recent decades. Number of hogs per farm has increased drastically. Market hog can be a male or female. Berkshire, chester white, duroc, hampshire, landrace, poland china, spotted, Color, size, fat content or leanness, marbling, intramuscular fat, tenderness. Intramuscular fat level greater than or equal to 3% 205 lb carcass from a love weight of 270 pounds. Abdomen is straight across for a pig that has a lower muscle percentage. Seedstock breeders (the farms do not sell animals that are sold for meet, but the sows whose offspring will lead to other market animals) Commercial producers (take crossbred animals and raise them for meat production rather than purebreds, because you can get good characteristics from each species rather than just one) Some traits are important to breed for such as rapid weight gain and muscle size.
