how many kgs are in a goat carcass?
The direct method of measuring the actual meat yield of a carcass is to take the carcasses to a commercial boning room where the butchers remove the meat from the bones. 1  Using cashmere wether goats aged between 2.5 and 4.5 years with live weights ranging from 27 to 79 kg the following meat yields were measured: 1  The carcass weights ranged from 12 to 33 kg. 2  Averaged over the entire kill, for every 1 kg increase in live weight, boneless meat increased 0.307 kg (Figure 2)