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)
Goat MEAT SAMPLER - 13 lbs. of Delicious Young Boer Goat Meat, consists of approximately 2 lb bone-in Loin Chops or whole loin, 3 lb whole rear leg roast, 3 lb. stew meat and 5 lbs ground goat meat. We will substitute dollar for dollar other cuts on OUT OF STOCK items Due to shortages, we will need to make substitutions of various items.