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<blockquote data-quote="Aero" data-source="post: 390809" data-attributes="member: 2076"><p>howdy all, sorry i have had very little internet access for last 3 weeks or so and am currently living in a farm house without a phone or computer after moving back to NC. there might be a few consecutive responses here...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>if you are looking at the efficiency of a feeder calf while retaining ownership through the feedlot, this might be true, but not so true in the more common world of selling calves.</p><p></p><p>the true efficiency measure is the profitability of each calf. this would require knowing how much expense a cow has incurred and the same for the calf. this includes how much grass (and/or supplement) they consume. for simplicity, we have to look at how much the cow consumed and what the calf brought when sold. this is the real efficiency. </p><p></p><p>from everything i have read, metabolic weight is about the only way to figure out how much a cow eats and i have explained this before in other threads. it would muddy the waters in this thread, so i will let you search for it if you are inclined to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aero, post: 390809, member: 2076"] howdy all, sorry i have had very little internet access for last 3 weeks or so and am currently living in a farm house without a phone or computer after moving back to NC. there might be a few consecutive responses here... if you are looking at the efficiency of a feeder calf while retaining ownership through the feedlot, this might be true, but not so true in the more common world of selling calves. the true efficiency measure is the profitability of each calf. this would require knowing how much expense a cow has incurred and the same for the calf. this includes how much grass (and/or supplement) they consume. for simplicity, we have to look at how much the cow consumed and what the calf brought when sold. this is the real efficiency. from everything i have read, metabolic weight is about the only way to figure out how much a cow eats and i have explained this before in other threads. it would muddy the waters in this thread, so i will let you search for it if you are inclined to. [/QUOTE]
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