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Frame Score

Last Updated: May 18, 2012

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Frame Score- Score based on visual evaluation of skeletal size or by measuring hip height (from ground to top of hips). This score is related to the slaughter weights at which cattle grade Choice or have comparable amounts of fat cover over the loin eye at the twelfth to thirteenth rib.

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