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Food for thought on cattle breeding preferred by feedlots
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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 735578" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>I'll have to disagree with this. Years ago a buyer for EXCEL told us nobody feeds for Prime. But out of every pen of 100 animals, there'll be 3-5 that grade Prime with the same food and management as the others. They don't stay in the feedlot longer and it doesn't take more feed. They simply have the right genetics.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And this is just wrong. Marbling starts at a young age. Backfat and marbling are two different traits and one doesn't necessarily affect the other. </p><p></p><p>When Future Beef was in business, they discouraged producers from chasing YGs, saying that cows that produced YG1 steers were more likely to not breed back. I've never seen anyone say high marbling cows are a problem though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 735578, member: 13"] I'll have to disagree with this. Years ago a buyer for EXCEL told us nobody feeds for Prime. But out of every pen of 100 animals, there'll be 3-5 that grade Prime with the same food and management as the others. They don't stay in the feedlot longer and it doesn't take more feed. They simply have the right genetics. And this is just wrong. Marbling starts at a young age. Backfat and marbling are two different traits and one doesn't necessarily affect the other. When Future Beef was in business, they discouraged producers from chasing YGs, saying that cows that produced YG1 steers were more likely to not breed back. I've never seen anyone say high marbling cows are a problem though. [/QUOTE]
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