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Carcass weight as percentage of live weight by species, production system, cohort, and GLEAM region. Includes country-specific overrides for industrial pig systems in Western Europe.

Usage

gleam_dressing_percentages

Format

A tibble with columns:

species

Animal species (Cattle, Buffaloes, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Chicken).

production_system

Production system (Dairy, Beef, Backyard, Intermediate, Industrial, Layers, Broilers). NA for species without system breakdown.

cohort

Cohort (e.g. Adult and replacement female). NA for species without cohort breakdown.

country

Country name for country-specific values. NA for regional values.

gleam_region

GLEAM region abbreviation (NA, RUS, WE, EE, NENA, ESEA, OCE, SA, LAC, SSA).

dressing_percent

Dressing percentage.

Source

MacLeod et al. (2018) GLEAM 3.0 Supplement S1, Table S.9.1. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aad4d8

Examples

gleam_dressing_percentages
#> # A tibble: 193 × 6
#>    species production_system cohort        country gleam_region dressing_percent
#>    <chr>   <chr>             <chr>         <chr>   <chr>                   <dbl>
#>  1 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      NA                         50
#>  2 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      RUS                        50
#>  3 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      WE                         50
#>  4 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      EE                         50
#>  5 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      NENA                       48
#>  6 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      ESEA                       50
#>  7 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      OCE                        50
#>  8 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      SA                         50
#>  9 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      LAC                        50
#> 10 Cattle  Dairy             Adult and re… NA      SSA                        47
#> # ℹ 183 more rows