Traits

Cattle Breeds

Overall mean

P-value

Arsi

Harar

Jersey*Horro

Ogaden

Mean ± SE

Slaughter weight (kg)

172.67 ± 5.21c

216.00 ± 8.00b

198.67 ± 15.34bc

275.00 ± 11.06a

215.58 ± 12.21

0.0008

Hot carcass weight (kg)

85.97 ± 2.66b

98.93 ± 5.74b

90.25 ± 8.93b

136.57 ± 7.28a

102.93 ± 6.64

0.0023

Chilled carcass weight (kg)

83.10 ± 2.87b

95.03 ± 5.11b

86.82 ± 9.00b

133.30 ± 7.52a

99.56 ± 6.63

0.0023

Dressing percentage (%)based on hot carcass weight

49.82 ± 1.37a

45.73 ± 1.11b

45.27 ± 1.17b

49.61 ± 0.77a

47.61 ± 0.80

0.0354

Dressing percentage (%) based on chilled carcass weight

48.15 ± 1.33a

43.94 ± 0.84b

43.51 ± 1.36b

48.41 ± 0.86a

46.01 ± 0.84

0.0241

Chilling/shrinkage loss (%)

3.36 ± 0.43

3.89 ± 0.50

3.90 ± 0.51

2.43 ± 0.41

3.39 ± 0.27

0.1629

Rib eye area (inch2 )

6.07± 0.03b

9.03 ± 0.12a

7.87 ± 1.03ab

9.53 ± 0.55a

8.13 ± 0.47

0.0134