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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: Pundyburn Lynn on September 08, 2015, 05:15:31 pm

Title: Killing out % of a Galloway
Post by: Pundyburn Lynn on September 08, 2015, 05:15:31 pm

Hello folks - quick question...


Does anyone have an killing out percentage handy for Galloway cattle.  Can't find it easily on Google...


Thanks!
Lynn

Title: Re: Killing out % of a Galloway
Post by: Pundyburn Lynn on September 08, 2015, 05:17:48 pm

As in liveweight to deadweight...

Title: Re: Killing out % of a Galloway
Post by: Louise P on September 08, 2015, 09:24:31 pm

Sorry can't help more as I don't know what they were live weight. But my last Belted Galloway steers went at 23 months old and they looked pretty average for the breed. I got about 140kg of saleable meat back from 1 and around 160kg from the other. Hope this helps a bit.

Title: Re: Killing out % of a Galloway
Post by: shoveller on September 13, 2015, 08:15:29 pm

It'll be about 50%