dress-out

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is new-to-me term that appears to have limited commercial distribution.
> Note noun, attributive and verb usage below.
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> http://goo.gl/sclSQ
> Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology: Genetic Approaches. By Rex A.
> Dunham. 2004
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>> A potential benefit of polyploidy is positive changes in carcass traits
>> (Dunham, 1990a). Reduced gonadal development leads to less waste in
>> processing. Chrisman et al. (1983) reported an average of 6% higher
>> dress-out in tank-raised triploid channel catfish at 3 years of aga compared
>> with diploids. ... If dress-out percentage had been evaluated at younger
>> ages and smaller sizes, the result might have been different. Hybrid channel
>> X blue catfish triploids had no dressout advantages when grown in tanks
>> ... Triploid Atlantic salmon X brown trout hybrids had the
>> samedress-out percentage as Atlantic salmon in saltwater net pens ...
>> ...
>> Triploid populations had a higher *dress-**out* percentage particularly
>> because of the lack of gonadal development in the females ...
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> Australian Red Claw Crayfish. By Michael P. Masser and David B. Rouse.
> Southern Regional Aquaculture Center. SRAC Publication No. 244. April 1997.
> [PDF--Available at srac.tamu.edu]
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>> Red claw are similar to native American crayfish in their general anatomy,
>> reproduction, and feeding habits. However, there are some important
>> differences. These include:
>> 1. larger potential size,
>> 2. higher percentage of dress-out (meat),
>> ...
>> Red claw can reach a weight of 2 to 4 ounces (50 to 100+ grams) in a
>> seven-month growing season while native crayfish normally grow to about 1 to
>> 1 1/2 ounces (20 to 35 grams) during a growing season. Furthermore, about
>> 30 percent of the total body weight of the red claw is edible tail
>> meat compared to 15 to 20 percent for native crayfish.
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> http://goo.gl/Y7Bke
> Sheep Farming for Meat and Wool. Edited by Jane Court, Sue Hides, John
> Webb-Ware. 2010
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>> Producers should also develop the skill of assessing lamb carcase weight
>> based on live weights. Typically, lambs sold off their ewes will dress out
>> at 43 to 47% with a few hours off feed. Lambs that are lighter will dress
>> out lower and lambs that are left longer off feed will dress out higher.
>> Merino lambs typically dress out about 1.5 to 3% lower than second cross
>> lambs and lambs grazing poor-quality feed will dress out will dress out tp
>> to 3% less.
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> I have not explored this much. I was working on something about crayfish and
> spotted the term. The other two are quick finds in GB.
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> VS-)
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An extenson based on the dressing-out of a carcass? I'm familiar with
this concept only from having come across it here in there in random
forms of literature. So, I may be wrong. But my impression is that it
consists of the elimination of all those parts of an animal's carcass
for which there is no immediate or any other use. So, once you get rid
of bones, guts, head, etc., what you have left is only the part of an
animal that is edible, with guaranteed monetary value.

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