07-11-2009, 05:21 PM
Quote:Which is why I used dressed weight.According to this paper, dressed weight is generally assumed to be 63% of the live animal's weight. So if the dressed weight was 1300 pounds, your 1 year old animals would have weighted 1300*100/63 = 2063 pounds. Mature bulls normally range between 1000 and 2000 pounds, is it not?
The amount of protein in pure meat is not 100% either. Most diet sites will give you numbers between 4% and 8%, but it can be as low as 2%.
But I'm just a city boy and hardly touched a cow in my life, so don't let this keep you from publishing your 'dissertation' :lol: