Abstract:
Temperament in cattle is becoming increasingly important in quality assurance programs for meat production, and is associated with tenderness and eating quality (Bindon pers.comm. 2001). Subjective scoring techniques such as described by Burrow et al. (1991) are being used to describe/measure temperament. An objective measure such as flight speed, as described by Burrow et al. (1997), has also shown to be an accurate measure of temperament.
