Provision of ultrasound scanning equipment to measure muscle and fat depths in live sheet and cattle

Provision of ultrasound scanning equipment to measure muscle and fat depths in live sheep and cattle. Signet Breeding Services, a department within AHDB currently provide performance recording of a few beef breeds and virtually all sheep within the UK. Signet continues to scan around 50,000 sheep and 5,000 cattle each year. Equipment is required for two services (sheep and beef scanning) for which two different probes may be needed and for which there are two different "reporting" procedures. The ultrasound scannin...