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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1678178" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>[USER=18664]@76 Bar[/USER] as far as our calves no they were not measured for frame score, being commercial calves. The quality on ours I feel should be good as their heifer mates consistently sold as bred heifers in the upper percentiles of the sale. Our calves have usually been from heifer bulls so that could account for the smaller size at weaning. By the next year the heifer mates are typically well grown and have enough frame to meet the graders approval. Every once in a while there would be one that doesn't. Our calves have been from AI and sons of those AI bulls with mature heights of 56 inches or more. When we weaned off our calves that time in question they were in good shape and I knew the markets would view them as short and too fat even after being weaned. The markets here want feeder cattle (stocker cattle) that don't have a lot of flesh and that have plenty of frame to put weight onto.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1678178, member: 24816"] [USER=18664]@76 Bar[/USER] as far as our calves no they were not measured for frame score, being commercial calves. The quality on ours I feel should be good as their heifer mates consistently sold as bred heifers in the upper percentiles of the sale. Our calves have usually been from heifer bulls so that could account for the smaller size at weaning. By the next year the heifer mates are typically well grown and have enough frame to meet the graders approval. Every once in a while there would be one that doesn’t. Our calves have been from AI and sons of those AI bulls with mature heights of 56 inches or more. When we weaned off our calves that time in question they were in good shape and I knew the markets would view them as short and too fat even after being weaned. The markets here want feeder cattle (stocker cattle) that don’t have a lot of flesh and that have plenty of frame to put weight onto. [/QUOTE]
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