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Birth Weight--How do you know?
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<blockquote data-quote="MikeC" data-source="post: 564979" data-attributes="member: 1604"><p>My buddy down the road who has a registered herd went to the weight tape, plus using scales a few years back for two years out of curiousity. He recorded both measurements and had our breed association do an analysis of the numbers. </p><p></p><p>When the smoke cleared, the weight tape did just as good a job as the scales did for identifying outliers within the contemporary groups of calves, which is the main function of recording birthweights to start with.</p><p></p><p>The only problems with the tapes is when several different people place the weight tapes in different areas on the hoof and read the tape differently.</p><p></p><p>Scales can be just as inaccurate as weight tapes if they aren't calibrated periodically, and can sometimes be off 10-15 lbs., but will still detect those outliers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MikeC, post: 564979, member: 1604"] My buddy down the road who has a registered herd went to the weight tape, plus using scales a few years back for two years out of curiousity. He recorded both measurements and had our breed association do an analysis of the numbers. When the smoke cleared, the weight tape did just as good a job as the scales did for identifying outliers within the contemporary groups of calves, which is the main function of recording birthweights to start with. The only problems with the tapes is when several different people place the weight tapes in different areas on the hoof and read the tape differently. Scales can be just as inaccurate as weight tapes if they aren't calibrated periodically, and can sometimes be off 10-15 lbs., but will still detect those outliers. [/QUOTE]
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