The Estimation of the Weight of Bulls from Heart Girth Measurements

Using body measurements to estimate live weight of dairy cattle in low-input systems in Senegal

“…HG was measured by letting the animal to stand with its head in the normal position and placing an ordinary measuring tape around the animal at the point of the smallest circumference just behind the forelegs and behind the hump for Zebu cattle. The tape was pulled slightly about the animal, tight enough to pull down the hairs but not to indent into the flesh (Branton & Salisbury 1946). HW was measured using a measuring stick (in cm), as the distance from the ground to the highest point of the withers.…”

A Method of Estimating Live-Weights in Small Shorthorn Zebu Cattle from Linear Body Measurements

“…Many different measurements have been used to estimate the live-weight of cattle. Significant relationships have been found between weight and heart girth measurements in European dairy breeds (Ragsdale, 1954;Branton and Salisbury, 1946) and in beef and dual-purpose breeds (Johnson, 1940;Wanderstock and Salisbury, 1946). Johansson and Hildeman (1954) found similar relationship with slaughter weight in European cattle.…”

Live weight assessment based on easily accessible morphometric characteristics in the double-muscled Belgian Blue beef breed

“…However, in many cases, weighing animals is not feasible or too complicated to organize. Therefore, since long before and still, live weight is estimated from easily accessible body measurements (Branton and Salisbury, 1946;Johansson and Hildeman, 1954;Vissac, 1966;Vos and Vos, 1967;Badi et al, 2002;Atta and El Khidir, 2004;de Aluja et al, 2005;Afolayan et al, 2006;Coopman et al, 2007).…”