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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 92836" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Here's a link to the OK State breeds site. Look up Belgium Blue and Piedmontese, Those are the two double muscled breeds that come to my mind, but there are others. When you look at them, you'll understand what "double muscled" means, especially the second picture down of the Belgium Blue. It's my understanding they they actually have the same number of muscles as "normal" cattle, but each muscle has more fibers than "normal" breeds. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I don't know that there are advantages, but someone can beat me up if I'm wrong in my comments below:</p><p></p><p>1. The cows are less fertile than normal muscled cows.</p><p>2. Double muscled breeds have more calving difficulty than normal breeds.</p><p>3. They produce very tender beef.</p><p>4. They produce a <strong>lot</strong> of very tender beef, great yield grades.</p><p>5. They don't marble.</p><p>6. In the commercial cattle business today, higher quality grade beef is more valuable than lower quality grade. Quality grade is based on marbling. So unless you have a specific market in mind, think twice about getting into them.</p><p>7. Some of them get too big and are discounted.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/" target="_blank">http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 92836, member: 13"] Here's a link to the OK State breeds site. Look up Belgium Blue and Piedmontese, Those are the two double muscled breeds that come to my mind, but there are others. When you look at them, you'll understand what "double muscled" means, especially the second picture down of the Belgium Blue. It's my understanding they they actually have the same number of muscles as "normal" cattle, but each muscle has more fibers than "normal" breeds. Personally, I don't know that there are advantages, but someone can beat me up if I'm wrong in my comments below: 1. The cows are less fertile than normal muscled cows. 2. Double muscled breeds have more calving difficulty than normal breeds. 3. They produce very tender beef. 4. They produce a [b]lot[/b] of very tender beef, great yield grades. 5. They don't marble. 6. In the commercial cattle business today, higher quality grade beef is more valuable than lower quality grade. Quality grade is based on marbling. So unless you have a specific market in mind, think twice about getting into them. 7. Some of them get too big and are discounted. [url=http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/]http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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