13 - Animal growth and meat quality
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Livestock productions
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Animal growth
Increase in body size weight and tissue development
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Sigmoid curve
S shaped growth curve with lag exponential and plateau phases
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Tissue growth order
Bone then muscle then fat
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Feed efficiency
Growth produced per unit of feed intake
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Early maturing animals
Deposit fat earlier and have smaller mature size
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Late maturing animals
Grow muscle longer and deposit fat later
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Growth factors
Genetics nutrition environment and hormones
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Carcass composition
Muscle fat and bone proportions
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Fat effect on meat
Improves flavour tenderness and juiciness
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Plateau phase
Stage where growth slows as maturity is reached
