| Summary: | The study was conducted to determine the effects of age and slaughter
weight on carcass and non carcass of female swamp buffalo at Sumber Rejeki
slaughterhouse Cirebon regency. The research material was 64 female swamp
buffalos with slaughter weight 250 to 375 kg and 376 to 500 kg, consisted of
age 3,5 years and 4 years. Data sollected included of age, slaughter weight,
carcass weight, non carcass weight, carcass percentage and non carcass
percentage (head, feet, skin, liver, lung, heart, digestive tract and kidney). Data
was analysed by analysis of variance of factorial pettern, followed by Duncan
Multiple Range Test (DMRT) when there was interaction. The statistic results
shawed that the age give influence on the percentage of head 3.5 years of age
(8.15 ± 0.60) and the age of 4 years (7.65 ± 0.42), foot cattle aged 3.5 years
(2.34 ± 0.30) and 4 years (2.76 ± 0.49), liver of cattle aged 3.5 years (1.13 ±
0.13) and at the age of 4 years (1.45 ± 0.13), lung cattle-lung age of 3.5 years
(0.59 ± 0.20) and (age 4 years (0.71 ± 0.05), in the heart of cattle aged 3.5
years (0.31 ± 0.03) and 4 years of age (0.38 ± 0.61), gastrointestinal tract in
cattle aged 3.5 years (3.33 ± 0.32) and 4 years (3.83 ± 0.64), and kidney aged
3.5 years (0.27 ± 0.02) and the age of 4 years (0.33 ± 0.07), except for the skin
age 3.5 (13.35 ± 0.97) and 4 years (12.76 ± 0.86). The slaughter weight affect
the percentage of carcass and weighs 250 to 375 kg (49.41 ± 0.23) and a
weight of 376 to 500 kg (49.76 ± 0.06), the percentage of head and weighs
250 to 375 kg (8.24 ± 0.3) and weighs 376 to 500 kg (7.34 ± 0.32), foot and
weighs 250 to 375 kg (8.24 ± 0.3) and weighs 376 to 500 kg (7, 34 ± 0.32),
skin and weighs 250 to 375 kg (13.58 ± 0.53) and a weight of 376 to 500 kg
(12.23 ± 0.83), lung weighs 250 to 375 kg (0 , 62 ± 0.08) and a weight of 376
to 500 kg (0.71 ± 0.08), and heart and weighs 250 to 375 kg (0.33 ± 0.05) and
a weight of 376 to 500 kg (0.38 ± 0.05). There was interaction between age
and weight on percentage of lungs and head.
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