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<blockquote data-quote="jnowack" data-source="post: 289487" data-attributes="member: 3954"><p>800 lbs is pretty small for a butcher beef. About the lightest one I have butchered is 1000. It depends a lot on the animal and how you prefer your beef. As they get older and heavier they should get fatter, get more marbling, and add more muscle (bigger steaks). If you feed another 90 days and the calf is gaining 3 lbs per day that gives you another 270 lbs of live weight and about another 160 lbs of carcass weight. I would think that would be more than enough extra meat to pay for another 90 days on feed unless the calf is so small framed that it is not going to grow any more and only get fatter. Hope that made sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jnowack, post: 289487, member: 3954"] 800 lbs is pretty small for a butcher beef. About the lightest one I have butchered is 1000. It depends a lot on the animal and how you prefer your beef. As they get older and heavier they should get fatter, get more marbling, and add more muscle (bigger steaks). If you feed another 90 days and the calf is gaining 3 lbs per day that gives you another 270 lbs of live weight and about another 160 lbs of carcass weight. I would think that would be more than enough extra meat to pay for another 90 days on feed unless the calf is so small framed that it is not going to grow any more and only get fatter. Hope that made sense. [/QUOTE]
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