Talk:Dressed weight

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This appears to intersect with Carcass weight which from a cursory look is the meat industry's term whereas hunters and outdoorsmen and perhaps farmers use the term dressed weight. Oddly, I can see some of this explained here but some of the words are missing. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:39, 8 October 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:25, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That article is wrong. Carcass weight is the raw weight of the animal before any dressing has been done.  It breaks down to: Carcass weight, dressed weight, retail weight.  Each step cuts more out.  At least according to the many sources I've been reading. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 21:40, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That doesn't sound right. I'm finding sources that clearly show Carcass weight to be after some form of dressing. In addition to the previous source, there is this one.

You may also want to hunt down "hog-dressed-weight." This page covers "field-dressed-weight" vs. "hog-dressed-weight." That's page 140 of a book, scroll down to page 143 and you'll see a table followed by a formula for converting from live-weight to hog-dressed-weight though a casual scan of other books shows there's long been discussion about various methods to translate to/from live weights.

This book has live-weight, dressed-weight, and table-dressed-weight. It's from the "Business and Professions Code of California Pertaining to Weights and Measures and Petroleum Products" meaning there may well be legal definitions of those three terms.

Here we have a book titled "Field-dressed Weight and Locker-dressed Weight Relationship for the Black Hills Deer in 1953." I did not chase down Locker-dressed Weight.

This report defines dressed-weight as "Dressed weight is the portion of of the kill brought into the kitchen for use, including bones for particular species." Do we need to have coverage of that the weight of an animal goes up proportional to the distance that you needed to carry it? "I dragged this 300 pound deer clear over the mountain!" Heaves it with a sigh on the scale and the hog-dressed-weight is 90 pounds. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 00:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

One head or two
The photo caption does not seem accurate.

Are we looking at two pigs, one with a head, and other without, or are we looking at a single pig that's been cut into two pieces, one of which has the head and the other is headless? I'd go for two pigs unless the original pig had three front legs. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 23:59, 17 December 2012 (UTC)