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US 2022/0026451 A1Published application
Methods for measuring and montoring a meat characteristic of a livestock animal from a sample obtained from a non-meat location of the livestock
OwnerSally Stevens LLOYD, Jose L. VALENZUELA +1inventors
InventorsSally Stevens LLOYD, Jose L. VALENZUELA, Roger Letts DAWKINS
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a method of livestock breeding, meat production and marketing, histology, and genetics using a biopsy sample from a non-meat location of the livestock to provide information about the meat quality of the livestock.
Claims17
A method of determining meat quality of an animal during life, comprising:
- a. obtaining a tissue sample by biopsy from a non-meat location of the animal;
- and
- b. analyzing the biopsy tissue sample to determine at least one fat characteristic of the tissue sample;
- wherein the determined fat characteristic of the biopsy tissue sample is correlated to a fat characteristic of meat of the animal.
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A method of determining a treatment of an animal, comprising:
- determining a Meat Standard Australia marbling score (MSA MB) from a marbling microscore;
- and
- treating the animal by a method comprising one of:
- slaughtering the animal;
- or
- adjusting an exposure condition of the animal.
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A method of producing an animal breeding plan for a population of at least one animal, comprising:
- determining a MSA MB score for at least one animal in a population;
- ranking said MSA MB scores in descending value to create a ranking of said population;
- and
- determining the animal breeding treatment based on the ranking of said population.
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