IFAS Extension
Release Date: 5/8/2019
Reviewed At: 8/5/2025
About this Publication
This document is AN248, one of a series of the Department of Animal Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date July 2010. Revised August 2018. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.
Authors
Chad Carr
Specialist
University of Florida
professor and state meat Extension specialist, Department of Animal Sciences
Larry Eubanks
external
University of Florida
former meat instructor and coordinator of research programs, Department of Animal Sciences