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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1118925" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>There is a huge difference in how they look banded versus knife cut! The sac is still there in a knife cut calf. Case in point, our kids participate in the carcass contest, where they take a home raised steer and raise it to slaughter and they are judged as calves, at butcher weight, then on the rail. At EVERY point, the instructor has the kids look at the cod, or where the testies used to be, and notice the difference in the cut calves (ours) and banded calves. At every stage (feeder, fair, and pre-slaughter), there is a big difference and everyone, even the novice kids, can pick out the calves that were knife cut. They teach the kids to look at the cod, like Dunn said to look at degree of finish. </p><p>Now whether a calf is docked or not at the sale barn I do not know, but a person can tell by visual appraisal if a calf is banded or knife cut. Maybe each sale location is different depending on the buyers who are there and their desire???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1118925, member: 18809"] There is a huge difference in how they look banded versus knife cut! The sac is still there in a knife cut calf. Case in point, our kids participate in the carcass contest, where they take a home raised steer and raise it to slaughter and they are judged as calves, at butcher weight, then on the rail. At EVERY point, the instructor has the kids look at the cod, or where the testies used to be, and notice the difference in the cut calves (ours) and banded calves. At every stage (feeder, fair, and pre-slaughter), there is a big difference and everyone, even the novice kids, can pick out the calves that were knife cut. They teach the kids to look at the cod, like Dunn said to look at degree of finish. Now whether a calf is docked or not at the sale barn I do not know, but a person can tell by visual appraisal if a calf is banded or knife cut. Maybe each sale location is different depending on the buyers who are there and their desire??? [/QUOTE]
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