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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 592000" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>I want to point out that a "pop-belly" is different than capacity. </p><p>I always tell people that they should be able to picture a 55-gal drum inside their cows, if they want efficient, easy keeping cows. Not sure if science backs me up, just know what my cows need to be like to survive grass in summer & hay in winter - no grain diet.</p><p>You can "add" some capacity to cattle, but very little. The farm in Montana with easy keeping, large capacity cows, got them that way, because the gutless wonders got culled because they couldn't perform under their environmental conditions.</p><p>So, if I see a herd of gutless wonders, I fugure they are welfare cows (supplimented with grain) or a poor performing herd. In the "real world" of cattle, gutless wonders fade away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 592000, member: 968"] I want to point out that a "pop-belly" is different than capacity. I always tell people that they should be able to picture a 55-gal drum inside their cows, if they want efficient, easy keeping cows. Not sure if science backs me up, just know what my cows need to be like to survive grass in summer & hay in winter - no grain diet. You can "add" some capacity to cattle, but very little. The farm in Montana with easy keeping, large capacity cows, got them that way, because the gutless wonders got culled because they couldn't perform under their environmental conditions. So, if I see a herd of gutless wonders, I fugure they are welfare cows (supplimented with grain) or a poor performing herd. In the "real world" of cattle, gutless wonders fade away. [/QUOTE]
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