Carcase records

Abattoir feedback per slaughtered calf — HSCW, dressing %, GR fat, EMD, IMF, eating grade. This is what closes the terminal-sire loop: carcase records are stored against the animal and inform the bull impact Monte Carlo. Carcase traits can be evaluated one at a time on published Angus parameters; no accuracy gain has been measured on real carcase data yet.

Recent records

CSV upload

Manual entry

Grid optimiser

Carcase records —

Most recent first. Click an animal tag to drill through to the animal detail page.

Bulk CSV upload

Drop a kill sheet from your abattoir. We auto-detect column variants from the major Australian processors. Pick a specific processor below if auto-detect doesn't recognise their format.

Processor format

Drag and drop a CSV
or click to browse

CSV · TSV · with header row · MSA score / MSA index supported

Recognised column variants

Only tag or nlis is required. Date format: YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YYYY, or DD-MM-YY. The parser knows these aliases:

tag         ↔ tag · animal_tag · id · cattle_id · mob_tag
nlis        ↔ nlis · rfid · eid · electronic_id · nlis_number
hot_carcase_kg ↔ hscw · hscw_kg · hot_weight · carcase_weight · cwt · cwt_kg
fat_score_gr ↔ gr_fat · grfat · fat_mm · c_fat · fat_score · fat (mm)
emd_mm      ↔ emd · ema · eye_muscle · eye_muscle_depth · muscle_depth
lean_meat_yield ↔ lmy · lean_yield · lean_pct · boning_yield
imf_pct     ↔ imf · intramuscular_fat
eating_grade ↔ msa_grade · msa_score · msa_index · grade
price_per_kg ↔ price · $/kg · dollars_per_kg · carcase_price

Sample template: Download blank template

Manual entry

For one-off records or correcting existing ones. Pick the animal first; the rest are filled in from the abattoir slip.

Animal

Slaughter date

Abattoir

Eating grade

Hot carcase kg

Dressing %

Lean meat yield %

P8 rump fat (mm)

12th-rib fat (mm)

EMA (cm²)

IMF (%)

Shear force (N, 5-day aged)

Price ($/kg)

Carcase grid optimiser

For each bull in the herd, project the expected carcase profile of bull × cow-herd-average progeny, run it against your target grid, and rank bulls by expected $ per progeny on that grid. Use this to choose the bull that best fits the buyer you're aiming at.

Target grid

Cow-herd target HSCW (kg)

Cow-herd baseline MSA index

Base price (c/kg HSCW) — needed for grain-fed and your own grid

Your grid: carcase weight band (kg, min–max)

Your grid: P8 fat band (mm, min–max) and out-of-band discount (c/kg)

MLA example grids: weight and fat bands as printed in MLA's Livestock Data Link example (2013); prices are the five-year average of Beef Central weekly kill-grid quotes (in today's dollars). No retailer or processor grid is built in — enter your own for a real offer.