Smith, N.S.Ledger, H.P.2015-07-162015-07-161965Smith, N.S., Ledger, H.P. (1965). A Method of Predicting Liveweight from Dissected Leg Weight. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 29(3), 504–511. https://doi.org/10.2307/37980480012-8325https://kalroerepository.kalro.org/handle/0/4742Ledger (1964) observed that leg weight was a constant of liveweight for 40 Brahma steers regardless of age or degree of fatness, and this paper reports on the liveweight/leg weight relationship for 248 African wild ungulates and 75 boran cattle, suggesting that this constant be used as a method of estimating liveweight. The correlation coefficients, leg weight as a percentage of liveweight, and standard deviations are given for each species. The data indicate that the weight of either foreleg or hindleg as a percentage of liveweight is constant and little affected by either sex, age, or degree of fatness for the nine species examined.enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Journal ContributionLiveweightCattleWild animalsYieldshttps://doi.org/10.2307/3798048