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<blockquote data-quote="ANAZAZI" data-source="post: 495876" data-attributes="member: 7541"><p>I think that 900 to 1100 pounds is a good weight for a mother cow, and a good weaning weight is 600 pounds from such a cow. If the cow is bigger than her son when you slaughter it, the cow is too big. If the sons weigh more than their mothers at slaughter time, the cows are the right size, or else the slaugterhouse pays too little for huge bulls and steers. If purebred charolais and blonde dacuitaine finish at forty percent higher weight than other breeds, this makes them useful as terminal sires, but truly expensive to raise as mother cows in a ordinary environment and with the usual prizes. And this only because you can maintain ten big cows or forteen of the right size on the same fodder. And the end result per steer or bull is the same, he is to be slaughtered at the same weight regardless of breed, to get the best prize per pound. And a beef cow has to give a lot of milk, no in-between-milkers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ANAZAZI, post: 495876, member: 7541"] I think that 900 to 1100 pounds is a good weight for a mother cow, and a good weaning weight is 600 pounds from such a cow. If the cow is bigger than her son when you slaughter it, the cow is too big. If the sons weigh more than their mothers at slaughter time, the cows are the right size, or else the slaugterhouse pays too little for huge bulls and steers. If purebred charolais and blonde dacuitaine finish at forty percent higher weight than other breeds, this makes them useful as terminal sires, but truly expensive to raise as mother cows in a ordinary environment and with the usual prizes. And this only because you can maintain ten big cows or forteen of the right size on the same fodder. And the end result per steer or bull is the same, he is to be slaughtered at the same weight regardless of breed, to get the best prize per pound. And a beef cow has to give a lot of milk, no in-between-milkers! [/QUOTE]
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