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<blockquote data-quote="plbcattle" data-source="post: 256970" data-attributes="member: 171"><p>I believe that it is the type of cattle operation that one runs dictates the amount of feed. Registered breeders who consign cattle to sales, put on production sales, sell replacement bulls, or sell private treaty ALL FEED GRAIN. to survive in the seedstock business you have to have your cattle a little fatter than most. Is it right or wrong, I don't know. I do know that the extra feed that is put into a animal will be rewarded usually. The average in the Registered Brangus breed last year was around $4000 so you have a little more feed in the animal but the price you receive is generally greater. This is not a issue of my cows will preform on grass or not. It is an issue of having to compete with the others. Don't believe me, take a cow to a registered consignment sale that has had no grain, you will have the lowest selling lot of the day. For a commercial man that needs his cow to produce the largest calf at the lowest input, I understand not feeding grain. Some of the high weights in registered breeds are attributed to extra feed, you just have to know that. I agree some are pushed to far and fall apart, both heifers and bulls. I think it is how the animals are feed that determines how they hold there BC. Genetics obviously plays a role in this also. Just my 2 cents worth</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plbcattle, post: 256970, member: 171"] I believe that it is the type of cattle operation that one runs dictates the amount of feed. Registered breeders who consign cattle to sales, put on production sales, sell replacement bulls, or sell private treaty ALL FEED GRAIN. to survive in the seedstock business you have to have your cattle a little fatter than most. Is it right or wrong, I don't know. I do know that the extra feed that is put into a animal will be rewarded usually. The average in the Registered Brangus breed last year was around $4000 so you have a little more feed in the animal but the price you receive is generally greater. This is not a issue of my cows will preform on grass or not. It is an issue of having to compete with the others. Don't believe me, take a cow to a registered consignment sale that has had no grain, you will have the lowest selling lot of the day. For a commercial man that needs his cow to produce the largest calf at the lowest input, I understand not feeding grain. Some of the high weights in registered breeds are attributed to extra feed, you just have to know that. I agree some are pushed to far and fall apart, both heifers and bulls. I think it is how the animals are feed that determines how they hold there BC. Genetics obviously plays a role in this also. Just my 2 cents worth [/QUOTE]
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