A note on the use of a weighband in estimating the liveweight of pure and crossbred zebu cattle

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cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MW
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.species.breedMALAWI ZEBUen
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen
cg.subject.ilriBREEDSen
dc.contributor.authorSpurling, D.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:02:22Zen
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:02:22Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/70688
dc.titleA note on the use of a weighband in estimating the liveweight of pure and crossbred zebu cattleen
dcterms.abstractSeventy-four weekly weighband and weighbridge comparsons were made on 21 pure and crossbred Malawi zebu cattle. The mean correlation coefficient obtained was +0.977. The weighband over-estimated the liveweight by a mean of 42 lbs, which was equivalent to an 8.5 percent error. The highest individual error obtained was 38 percent. It was suggested that the method was too inaccurate to be recommended.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.issued1974
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectcattleen
dcterms.subjectbreedsen
dcterms.subjectmalawien
dcterms.subjectbody measurementsen
dcterms.subjectcrossbredsen
dcterms.subjectmeasurementen
dcterms.subjectmethodsen
dcterms.subjectheifersen
dcterms.typeReport

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