Beef11":1v2y9vlx said:I heard 5 years was average. I think those numbers came from a salebarn reading bangs tatoos.
Ditto!Brute 23":2i4sacj2 said:Same here,,, easily get 13, 14,15 years out of them,,, sometimes more.
Badlands":3ofdufqi said:7-8 is average, and I would guess it is actually closer to 7 than 8. You just aren't going to stray very far from that number.
It is important to look at the whole distribution, not just the few that make it to an old age. If there truly were a high percentage that made it to that advanced age like some might talk about, then there was no way that the person selected that many for each year to begin with! To do so would have put the culling and replacement rate below 5%/year.
Badlands