carcass weight

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carcass weight (countable and uncountable, plural carcass weights)

  1. The weight of an animal after slaughter and removal of most internal organs, head, and skin.
    • 2007, Temple Grandin, chapter 9, in Livestock handling and transport, →ISBN, page 143:
      In cattle hauled an average of 1023 km, almost one-half of the shrinkage was due to loss of carcass weight (Self and Gay, 1972).

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