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Are the 1150-1200 pound cows reality or myth ?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 957517" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>on finish wt vs weaning wt vs cow size, etc.</p><p></p><p>fwiw I process all my steers for freezer beef off of grazing corn in April at about 13 months old. So i get to see and carefully weigh what comes back frozen in the box from each steer. My steers generally range from 950 to 1100 lb at this 13 month processing.</p><p></p><p>It has been very surprising to me to find that some of my 1000 lb steers that were a high percent weaning wt from a "1200 lb class" cow come back with more beef in the boxes than my heavier 1100 lb but low percent of dam wt steers from my 1600 lb cows.</p><p></p><p>not sure I am getting the point across but some cow families just have larger, heavier steers with more bone and offal than the smaller cows' steers.</p><p></p><p>And overall the advantage of 1200-lb cows over 1800-lb cows is that I can have 3 1200 lb (=3600lb) cows on the about the same amount of grass as I can have 2 1800 lb (=3600lb) cows. And the former gives me 3 calves to sell or finish than 2 calves to sell or finish. Even if the 3 calves are each slightly smaller than the 2 larger calves, it is likely in the end the total finished weight of the 3 calves from 1200 lb will be more than the 2 calves from 1800 lb cows.</p><p></p><p>In practice I see results in this direction.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 957517, member: 7509"] on finish wt vs weaning wt vs cow size, etc. fwiw I process all my steers for freezer beef off of grazing corn in April at about 13 months old. So i get to see and carefully weigh what comes back frozen in the box from each steer. My steers generally range from 950 to 1100 lb at this 13 month processing. It has been very surprising to me to find that some of my 1000 lb steers that were a high percent weaning wt from a "1200 lb class" cow come back with more beef in the boxes than my heavier 1100 lb but low percent of dam wt steers from my 1600 lb cows. not sure I am getting the point across but some cow families just have larger, heavier steers with more bone and offal than the smaller cows' steers. And overall the advantage of 1200-lb cows over 1800-lb cows is that I can have 3 1200 lb (=3600lb) cows on the about the same amount of grass as I can have 2 1800 lb (=3600lb) cows. And the former gives me 3 calves to sell or finish than 2 calves to sell or finish. Even if the 3 calves are each slightly smaller than the 2 larger calves, it is likely in the end the total finished weight of the 3 calves from 1200 lb will be more than the 2 calves from 1800 lb cows. In practice I see results in this direction. Jim [/QUOTE]
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