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<blockquote data-quote="Kathie in Thorp" data-source="post: 1074285" data-attributes="member: 16769"><p>HDRider, I know just about nothing about the numbers game for carcass quality/grading butcher beef. We've finished Angus-X-something, Black Baldies and British Whites for private sale to our butcher beef customers for 4 years. And all of them have been really good beef -- some fat on them, but not hog-fat. We just did 2 Baldies a few weeks ago, and have been talking to our cutter, coordinating pick up by our customers. He said he wished he was cutting our beef every time someone walked into his shop -- he likes to show off the steaks That sounds good to us. We'll just keep doing what we're doing, which is summer grass, winter hay (grass), and then 60 days finishing on alfalfa and grain, out on a 1-acre pasture so they've got some room to roam around. Our grain ratio is about 1/3 COB and the rest rolled corn, but not tons of it -- 6-7 lbs. morning and evening. On the rail, those two were 800 and 880 lbs. $3.35/lb. plus customer pays share of kill fee and his/her cut/wrap fees. We don't get rich, but they pay their way and we like having the cattle around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathie in Thorp, post: 1074285, member: 16769"] HDRider, I know just about nothing about the numbers game for carcass quality/grading butcher beef. We've finished Angus-X-something, Black Baldies and British Whites for private sale to our butcher beef customers for 4 years. And all of them have been really good beef -- some fat on them, but not hog-fat. We just did 2 Baldies a few weeks ago, and have been talking to our cutter, coordinating pick up by our customers. He said he wished he was cutting our beef every time someone walked into his shop -- he likes to show off the steaks That sounds good to us. We'll just keep doing what we're doing, which is summer grass, winter hay (grass), and then 60 days finishing on alfalfa and grain, out on a 1-acre pasture so they've got some room to roam around. Our grain ratio is about 1/3 COB and the rest rolled corn, but not tons of it -- 6-7 lbs. morning and evening. On the rail, those two were 800 and 880 lbs. $3.35/lb. plus customer pays share of kill fee and his/her cut/wrap fees. We don't get rich, but they pay their way and we like having the cattle around. [/QUOTE]
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