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Accurate measurement of changes in body
composition and in the energy content
of live animals is crucial to understand
the responses to the intake of nutrients.
Despite the accuracy of the serial slaughter
technique in determining body composition,
it is very expensive and comparisons within
an animal became impossible thus the
need for an accurate method to predict body composition in the live animal is
obvious for the biological efficiency studies.
This work aimed to establish equations
to estimate in vivo whole empty body
chemical composition of sheep using real
time ultrasound CRTU) measurements.
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Silva, S.; Gomes, M.J.; Teixeira, A.; Guedes, C.M.; Santos, V.; Azevedo, J.M.T.; Dias-da-Silva, A. (2012). Sheep whole body composition predicted by in vivo real time ultrasound. In FAIM I: first annual conference on Body and carcass evaluation, meat, quality, software and Tracebility. Dublin