Cushion cuts were incredibly popular from most of the nineteenth century until the early twentieth century. The basis for the cushion cut is the so-called old mine cut, which was a square cut with rounded corners, deep with a high crown, small table and large facets. The old mine cut had 33 crown facets and 25 pavilion facets. The modern cushion cut resembles a cross between the old mine cut and a modern oval cut.
The direct method of measuring the actual meat yield of a carcass is to take the carcasses to a commercial boning room where the butchers remove the meat from the bones. 1  Using cashmere wether goats aged between 2.5 and 4.5 years with live weights ranging from 27 to 79 kg the following meat yields were measured: 1  The carcass weights ranged from 12 to 33 kg. 2  Averaged over the entire kill, for every 1 kg increase in live weight, boneless meat increased 0.307 kg (Figure 2)
Meat Production and Carcass Composition. 12.2.1. Meat production. The annual national mutton and goat meat production is 77 and 62 thousand metric tons, respectively, largely. because of the high average off-take rates estimated to be about 30% from sheep and 36% from goats. Sheep. and goats, respectively, contribute some 21 and 16.8% of the total ruminant livestock meat output. While contributing significantly to meat production in Ethiopia, present production levels of sheep and goats. are far below their potential. Productivity per animal is reported to be very low. Annual meat production is. estimated at 3â3.5 kg per animal per year in the population and 8â10 kg per animal slaughtered.