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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1581927" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>Yellow fat is usually a result of being on a mostly grass/forage diet instead of grain finished. Takes about 60-90 days on a mostly grain diet to turn yellow fat into white fat. You can find different articles about this by doing a Google search, here's a pretty decent explanation of it: https://articles.extension.org/pages/39471/why-do-packing-houses-want-the-cattle-to-have-white-fat-and-not-yellow-how-long-do-you-have-to-feed- It's basically a result of how they convert different vitamins into fat.</p><p></p><p>If you are selling to a packer you will get docked for yellow fat so if you were to sell culls or feeders you probably would want to finish them out on grain if you want them to grade out better on the rail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1581927, member: 20580"] Yellow fat is usually a result of being on a mostly grass/forage diet instead of grain finished. Takes about 60-90 days on a mostly grain diet to turn yellow fat into white fat. You can find different articles about this by doing a Google search, here's a pretty decent explanation of it: https://articles.extension.org/pages/39471/why-do-packing-houses-want-the-cattle-to-have-white-fat-and-not-yellow-how-long-do-you-have-to-feed- It's basically a result of how they convert different vitamins into fat. If you are selling to a packer you will get docked for yellow fat so if you were to sell culls or feeders you probably would want to finish them out on grain if you want them to grade out better on the rail. [/QUOTE]
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