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<blockquote data-quote="AllForage" data-source="post: 1041307" data-attributes="member: 14878"><p>My purpose about asking if you have ever fed out your calves is not to "make more money".</p><p></p><p>It was to challenge your criteria for your cattle. If you have never fed, kept, or eaten your calves how can one make decisions based on breeding? What I am getting at is I am not sure you understand the end result of your cow selection. In my opinion, everyone should test their cattle by grass finishing a steer to 24 months. I do not care what anyone thinks about flavor or their personal taste on marbling. To me, it is the most basic and simplistic form of feeding. If a steer cannot make a barely an acceptable eating experience or have mid-select marbling then the cows are too big and late maturing. That translates into a hard feeding animal for the feeder. It takes a ton of corn to finish a steer from a 1650# momma. If ones cattle require high octane feeding from weaning on to make an acceptable product then what is that really achieving? I believe corn should shorten the process, but not totally be required. This is the danger of breeding for the "barn". It brings it down to a commodity based on pounds only.</p><p></p><p>Also your phenotype list could be a very nice milk cow. Where's the beef?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllForage, post: 1041307, member: 14878"] My purpose about asking if you have ever fed out your calves is not to "make more money". It was to challenge your criteria for your cattle. If you have never fed, kept, or eaten your calves how can one make decisions based on breeding? What I am getting at is I am not sure you understand the end result of your cow selection. In my opinion, everyone should test their cattle by grass finishing a steer to 24 months. I do not care what anyone thinks about flavor or their personal taste on marbling. To me, it is the most basic and simplistic form of feeding. If a steer cannot make a barely an acceptable eating experience or have mid-select marbling then the cows are too big and late maturing. That translates into a hard feeding animal for the feeder. It takes a ton of corn to finish a steer from a 1650# momma. If ones cattle require high octane feeding from weaning on to make an acceptable product then what is that really achieving? I believe corn should shorten the process, but not totally be required. This is the danger of breeding for the "barn". It brings it down to a commodity based on pounds only. Also your phenotype list could be a very nice milk cow. Where's the beef? [/QUOTE]
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