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12-18 Poultry Science CH 12]

Dressed Meat
Another common use of percent in the poultry business is the relationship of the live weight to
the dressed weight, or eviscerated yield. In the turkey industry it is found that toms yield about 75%
of live weights while the hens yield about 77% of live weight.

Example A: Tom turkeys have about a 75% eviscerated yield and hen’s have a 77% yield. If a hen
and a tom each weigh 20 lb. live weight, what should be their eviscerated yields?
______________ Tom eviscerate lbs.
_______________ Hen eviscerate lbs.
Solution:
Eviscerated yield# = live weight x eviscerated % ÷ 100%

Tom: Eviscerated yield = 20# x 75% ÷ 100%
= 20# x (75% ÷ 100%)
= 20# x 0.75
Tom: Eviscerated yield = 15#

Hen: Eviscerated yield = 20# x 77% ÷ 100%
= 20# x (77% ÷ 100%)
= 20# x 0.77
Hen: Eviscerated yield = 15.4#

Example B: Prepared Tom Turkey is selling for 32¢ per pound. Twenty live birds weighing on
average 18# each are sold yielding 75% eviscerated. (a) What is the average
eviscerated weight and (b) how much will be received?

(a) ____________ Avg Eviscerated weight

(b) $ _______________________ received
Solution:
(a) Eviscerated yield# = live weight x eviscerated % ÷ 100%

Tom: Eviscerated yield = 18# x 75% ÷ 100%
= 18# x (75% ÷ 100%)

= 18# x 0.75
(a) Tom: Average Eviscerated yield = 13.5#

(b) (# birds) x (Avg Wt) x (dress %) x ($/# dressed) = $ received
Convert % to decimal values
(20 birds) x (18#/bird) x (75%) x ($.32/# dressed) = $ received

(b) 20 x 18 x 0.75 x $0.32 = $ 86.40

In meat processing it is necessary for processors to determine how many animals will be
required to meet a market demand. Considering the eviscerated yield of animals processors will
calculate the numbers of animals to meet the demand. In the following problems you will be asked to
find how many birds it will take to fill a MINIMUM order. In these types of problems one must
abandon the normal rounding rules, the reason being that any fractional part of a bird will require the
use of a whole individual bird.

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