date:Nov 26, 2012
al lot fed cattle using flight speed, an electronic measure of how quickly an animal exits a weighing chute. Flightier animals will exit at a faster speed while quiet animals move more slowly.
Their results showed that as flight speed increased, muscle glycogen concentration in the loin muscle at the time of slaughter also increased, indicating that the cattle that had higher flight speeds were at a lower risk of producing dark cutting carcasses in this study.
Only 2 percent of the cattle in t