BARNSCOOP":283buygj said:Thanks Dun,
That was a good article. I read it all and am going to print it off when I get to work. Can I ask you question? I sometimes get confused when people say that a bull or cow needs more or less frame. I think of frame as bone and bone as waste. What am I missing? What does the cannon bone have to do with early or late maturing?
farmwriter":1bngvwlb said:Okay, I'm confused, so you smarties help me out. In the article dun posted by Rasby:
"The data suggests about a 7% increase in feed intake for each 10% increase in live weight. A 1,300 pound cow is will consume 22% more feed than the 1,000 pound female although there is a 30% difference in body weight."
Here's what I read just a few days earlier in an article by Stephen Boyles, OSU Extension Beef Specialist:
"Even if a cow's body size were doubled, her energy requirement would only increase about 35 percent."
Anybody able to reconcile these two statements, or do I misunderstand?
First it's obviously an imperfect science. But I think the variation may have to do with as the size increases the added nutritional requirements decreases. 7% upto lets say 300 lbs 6% to 5% lbs etc.farmwriter":35wts2pq said:Okay, I'm confused, so you smarties help me out. In the article dun posted by Rasby:
"The data suggests about a 7% increase in feed intake for each 10% increase in live weight. A 1,300 pound cow is will consume 22% more feed than the 1,000 pound female although there is a 30% difference in body weight."
Here's what I read just a few days earlier in an article by Stephen Boyles, OSU Extension Beef Specialist:
"Even if a cow's body size were doubled, her energy requirement would only increase about 35 percent."
Anybody able to reconcile these two statements, or do I misunderstand?
farmwriter":1i8vd86s said:Okay, I'm confused, so you smarties help me out. In the article dun posted by Rasby:
"The data suggests about a 7% increase in feed intake for each 10% increase in live weight. A 1,300 pound cow is will consume 22% more feed than the 1,000 pound female although there is a 30% difference in body weight."
Here's what I read just a few days earlier in an article by Stephen Boyles, OSU Extension Beef Specialist:
"Even if a cow's body size were doubled, her energy requirement would only increase about 35 percent."
Anybody able to reconcile these two statements, or do I misunderstand?