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Anybody measure how much their cows eat?
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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 932829" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>I'm confused here. You're saying that a well-muscled cow or in this case a typical BEEF cow would eat more than a lighter-muscled cow (like a DAIRY cow) assuming their both lactating? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever; dairy cows are known to and do eat more than their beef counterparts because their bodies demand more nutrition and more input than a beef cow's body demands. Even in the dry period dairy cows still eat a lot, more than what beef cows do. So saying that the amount of muscle determines how much a cow eats is seemingly unrealistic, and not exactly correlated to feed or forage efficiency or the cost of feed.</p><p></p><p>Really, I think you can get lighter-muscled cows that eat more than well-muscled cows, and vice versa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 932829, member: 3739"] I'm confused here. You're saying that a well-muscled cow or in this case a typical BEEF cow would eat more than a lighter-muscled cow (like a DAIRY cow) assuming their both lactating? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever; dairy cows are known to and do eat more than their beef counterparts because their bodies demand more nutrition and more input than a beef cow's body demands. Even in the dry period dairy cows still eat a lot, more than what beef cows do. So saying that the amount of muscle determines how much a cow eats is seemingly unrealistic, and not exactly correlated to feed or forage efficiency or the cost of feed. Really, I think you can get lighter-muscled cows that eat more than well-muscled cows, and vice versa. [/QUOTE]
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