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Beef-- live weight, hanging weight, etc, Q?
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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 425740" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>I'd disagree with that. Look at this calf and tell me this is decent cover. She's just under 1,000lbs and 12 months, had been fed grain at 2% of her body weight since weaning, and was "fed properly". A calf would have to have more cover before I'd butcher, and she <em>can </em>put on more condition -- this isn't "as much as she'll ever get".</p><p></p><p><img src="http://cattletoday.com/photos/data/500/medium/telcey_12106.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Did you read the second article?</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the enclosed <em>Agricultural Alternatives: Dairy-beef Production </em>recommends feeding dairy calves a high-grain diet their entire lives and slaughtering at an early age of 12–14 months at 1150–1300 pounds.<br /> <br /> Holstein steers are often marketed to feedlots at about 700–800 pounds, where they are finished on grain and slaughtered at around 1200 pounds Feedlots need to put at least 300 pounds on the animal in order to be profitable and therefore buy stockers between 700–1000 pounds. (5) However, Holsteins can be finished to a variety of weights (1200–1800 pounds).</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 425740, member: 852"] I'd disagree with that. Look at this calf and tell me this is decent cover. She's just under 1,000lbs and 12 months, had been fed grain at 2% of her body weight since weaning, and was "fed properly". A calf would have to have more cover before I'd butcher, and she [i]can [/i]put on more condition -- this isn't "as much as she'll ever get". [img]http://cattletoday.com/photos/data/500/medium/telcey_12106.jpg[/img] Did you read the second article? [list]the enclosed [i]Agricultural Alternatives: Dairy-beef Production [/i]recommends feeding dairy calves a high-grain diet their entire lives and slaughtering at an early age of 12–14 months at 1150–1300 pounds. Holstein steers are often marketed to feedlots at about 700–800 pounds, where they are finished on grain and slaughtered at around 1200 pounds Feedlots need to put at least 300 pounds on the animal in order to be profitable and therefore buy stockers between 700–1000 pounds. (5) However, Holsteins can be finished to a variety of weights (1200–1800 pounds).[/list] [/QUOTE]
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