what define’s a loose shoulder

[sanhestar]

Hello,

I’ve been reading about yoke designs and yoke fitting and found – again – the term “loose shoulder” in bovines.

So I looked in my anatomy books at the different sceletal systems of cattle, horses and goats trying to find if I for myself can find the distinction between the loose shoulder of cattle and the firm shoulder of horses.

Well, I found several differences (angle of shoulder, amount of muscles, length of muscles, place of attachment of the same muscle in the three species) and from what I deduced, the loose shoulder in cattle results in:

– the muscles that hold the shoulder close to the ribcage are less prominent and in cases shorter than in horses
– differences in muscle attachment and “direction”
– differences in the part of sinew resp. fascia in shoulder muscles – here the goats really stand out, they have the biggest fascia in shoulder muscles among the three species – so, if my deduction is correct, they should have a firm shoulder similar or even more firm than horses.

Now, am I correct?

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