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commercial Charolais momma cows?
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<blockquote data-quote="djinwa" data-source="post: 1387580" data-attributes="member: 8265"><p>Has the Charolais breed changed? They used to be a growth and muscle breed. Muscle tissue is more metabolically active, so a muscular cow will need more calories to maintain more muscle. So supposedly Charolais cows would need to eat more than a less muscular maternal breed.</p><p></p><p>Of course, nobody knows how much their cows eat. Might wean a big calf but at what cost?</p><p></p><p>Ideally you want a less muscular cow bred to a muscular bull. More pounds of beef PER POUND OF FEED. Feed less to the whole cow herd.</p><p></p><p>So use Charolais cows to make muscle bulls.</p><p></p><p>But who knows - maybe Charolais are now an efficient maternal breed, and the maternal breeds have gone to muscle?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djinwa, post: 1387580, member: 8265"] Has the Charolais breed changed? They used to be a growth and muscle breed. Muscle tissue is more metabolically active, so a muscular cow will need more calories to maintain more muscle. So supposedly Charolais cows would need to eat more than a less muscular maternal breed. Of course, nobody knows how much their cows eat. Might wean a big calf but at what cost? Ideally you want a less muscular cow bred to a muscular bull. More pounds of beef PER POUND OF FEED. Feed less to the whole cow herd. So use Charolais cows to make muscle bulls. But who knows - maybe Charolais are now an efficient maternal breed, and the maternal breeds have gone to muscle? [/QUOTE]
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