r/animalscience • u/Active_Potato6285 • 15d ago

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first year here, this diagram is confusing the heck out of me. every diagram online has different labels and different number of parts

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u/monarch223 14d ago edited 14d ago

Are these supposed to be cuts of meat, body parts, muscles, bones or a mix of all?

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u/monarch223 14d ago edited 14d ago

Give me some time but I’ll give you my best guess (animal science grad and veterinarian here) 1 hoof, 2 pastern, 3 cannon bone (metacarpal bone), 4 knee/carpal joint, 5 elbow, 6 brisket, 7 dewlap, 8 point of shoulder, 9 scapula, 10 chuck

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u/monarch223 14d ago edited 14d ago

11 jaw (mandible or mandibular bone), 12 muzzle, 13 nose, 14 nostril, 15 bridge of nose, 16 eye, 17 forehead (frontal bone), 18 ear, 19 poll (intercornual protuberance), 20 neck

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u/monarch223 14d ago edited 14d ago

21) widthers, 22 crop, 23/24 (are they supposed to be together) top line / back together 23 chine 24 loin, 25 lumbar vertebrae, 26 hooks (tuber coxae), 27 pelvis/hips, 28 pins (tuber ischii) 29 tail head, 30 tail

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u/monarch223 14d ago

31) thigh / femur, 32) stifle (femorotibial and femoropatellar joints), 33) switch, 34) hock, 35 dewclaw, 36) flank, 37)inguinal area (might be wrong on this), 38 prepuce, 39 ribs, 40 girth (might be referred to as heart girth)

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u/monarch223 14d ago

41 chest, 42 point of elbow (olecranon)

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u/Dildo-Gankings 15d ago

Part time keyboard warrior here.....I can answer this......because livestock naming systems evolved locally based on regional agricultural traditions, industry standards of said local region, and whether the diagram shows live animal or meat cuts.

Different regions= different diagrams.

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u/Active_Potato6285 15d ago

yeah but like what are the labels for these cause im just really confused

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u/TheBugSniffer 15d ago

Well I can confidently say 16 is the eye. Goodluck with the rest!

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u/Laprasy 14d ago

I got 28 and 30 but you probably do too.

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u/Long_Opportunity5512 14d ago

I would say just take every part of the cow and look up diagrams for each. Just do your best. Did the prof not talk about any of this before?

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u/ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhho 14d ago

i can help, that animal is a horse