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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 642871" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>What exactly are you disagreeing with??? You can look at the cow and see that she needs to put on 200++ pounds to be in a body condition score 5. You know the weight went somewhere. Some energy is lost in the process of making milk. More energy is lost by the calf digesting the milk, some of the calve's digested energy is utilized for maintenance and does not get used for growth. You have a picture of a poor cow with a big strapping fat calf. While yes the cow probably has lost some energy to weather and parasites, logic dictates that most of the cow's missing weight went into that big fat calf. Now if we were looking at a pair that had just gone through a drought and had been starved; we would expect to see a poor cow with a small runty calf as there weren't enough groceries available for the cow to maintain her condition or feed the calf properly. In this case it is obvious that there was groceries because we can see them in the calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 642871, member: 7645"] What exactly are you disagreeing with??? You can look at the cow and see that she needs to put on 200++ pounds to be in a body condition score 5. You know the weight went somewhere. Some energy is lost in the process of making milk. More energy is lost by the calf digesting the milk, some of the calve's digested energy is utilized for maintenance and does not get used for growth. You have a picture of a poor cow with a big strapping fat calf. While yes the cow probably has lost some energy to weather and parasites, logic dictates that most of the cow's missing weight went into that big fat calf. Now if we were looking at a pair that had just gone through a drought and had been starved; we would expect to see a poor cow with a small runty calf as there weren't enough groceries available for the cow to maintain her condition or feed the calf properly. In this case it is obvious that there was groceries because we can see them in the calf. [/QUOTE]
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