Use Dressing Percentage when you need to compute dressing percentage as the hot carcass weight percentage of the shrunk live weight. Enter Hot carcass kg and Shrunk live weight kg using the definitions and units below so the result can be reproduced.

Hot carcass kg

A finite measured or assumed value.

Shrunk live weight kg

A finite measured or assumed value.

The published tool contract uses this rule: Compute dressing percentage as the hot carcass weight percentage of the shrunk live weight.

Dressing percentage

The calculated dressing percentage in %.

A ratio or percentage can conceal the scale of its numerator and denominator and becomes sensitive to measurement error when the denominator is small.

Retain the original Hot carcass kg and Shrunk live weight kg values and their units alongside the result. Carcass Yield % is useful when you instead need to compute dressing yield as the carcass weight percentage of the live weight. Bone Percentage provides another view by helping you compute the bone mass percentage of a dressed carcass weight.

• Carcass Yield %

  Compute dressing yield as the carcass weight percentage of the live weight.

• Bone Percentage

  Compute the bone mass percentage of a dressed carcass weight.

• Carcass Fat %

  Compute the dissectible fat mass percentage of a dressed carcass weight.