Tosefta for Menachot 123:21

ורבי סבר דון מינה ואוקי באתרה מה זבחי שלמי יחיד טעונין תנופה לאחר שחיטה אף זבחי שלמי צבור טעונין תנופה לאחר שחיטה ואוקי באתרה התם הוא דחזה ושוק אבל הכא כמות שהן כמות שהן בחיים

So Rabbi. But the Sages say, Only of the breast and thigh. Wherein do they differ? - R'Hisda said to R'Hamnuna (others say, R'Hamnuna said to R'Hisda) , They differ as to whether we say 'Deduce from it and again from it', or 'Deduce from it and establish it in its own place'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whenever a subject is inferred from another by means of analogy or by 'the common features' the question always arises as to the extent to which the inference must be carried. The rule 'deduce from it and again from it' clearly suggests that the two subjects must in the end be brought to absolute agreement on every point. On the other hand, 'deduce from it and establish it in its place' suggests that the inference is to be made with regard to one point only, and as for the rest each subject is regulated by the rules governing its other aspects.');">25 The Rabbis maintain the principle, 'Deduce from it and again from it'. ['Deduce from it':] as the individual's peace-offering requires waving after it is slaughtered, so the peace-offerings of the community also require waving after they are slaughtered; and 'again from it': just as the waving there26 is of the breast and thigh, so here it is also of the breast and thigh. Rabbi, however, maintains the principle 'Deduce from it and establish it in its own place'. ['Deduce from it':] as the individual's peace-offering requires waving after it is slaughtered, so the peace-offerings of the community also require waving after they are slaughtered; and 'establish it in its own place': whereas there26 the waving is of the breast and thigh only, here it is of them as they are, that is, as they are when alive.

Tosefta Pesachim

The first Passover was [divided] among three groups (כתות not בתים, see GR"A and Pes. 5:7) and the second Passover was not [divided] among three groups. A Tamid sacrifice would be slaughtered in the evening, he (i.e., the Kohen) would burn the incense, and he would tend to the candles [of the menorah]. He would come to where the Passover offering was located, and he would cut it open and take out its sacrificial portions, even four or five [offerings at a time]. He would put them on a tray and burn them on top of the Altar. And on the Sabbath he would keep the carcass "dressed" (i.e., not flayed) and leave it and go out. Rabbi Yishmael bar Rabbi Yochanan ben Berokah says, [if] the fourteenth [of Nissan] fell on the Sabbath, he would not flay [the carcass] except until the place of the waving (i.e., the breast and thigh, see Men. 62a:1). [If] the Kohen who was to offer [the sacrifice] on the Altar would pour out [the blood] in a single pouring against the base [of the Altar], it would be disqualified. The Levites would stand on their platform and finished the Hallel in song. If they finished it, they would repeat it, and if they repeated it, they would repeat it a third time, although [in actuality] they never repeated it a third time in all their days. Said Rabbi Yehuda -- "in all their days" -- [indeed,] the third [and last] group never reached to "I love the Lord, for He hears" (Ps. 116:1), because the people were few and they would call it the "lazy group."

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