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<blockquote data-quote="rocket2222" data-source="post: 476389" data-attributes="member: 5362"><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p>So you breed them so their 5 frames and 6/8 inches wider and a foot longer so they end up weighing what a normal 6 frame weighs. Then because they are 4/6 inches shorter they are more efficient. I guess beings they don't have bend their necks as far down to eat, they use less energy, theres got to be a big savings there :roll: They say the reason a 5 frame is more efficient than a 6 frame is because it weighs less, not the same. The next thing they will say is these 1500/1600 5 frames don't eat any less than are old 6 frames, maybe we need to drop them down another frame score to keep the weight down, [and make them more efficient] and pretty soon ya'll be back down to the dinks of the past which diidn't work any better than the 8/9 frames in the eighties. Just my 2 cents worth.</p><p></p><p> I needed to correct part of my earlier post. I wrote "The reason a 5 frame is more efficient than a 6 frame is because it weighs less, not the same." What it sould have read is, "THEY SAY the reason a 5 frame is more efficient than a 6 frame is because it weighs less, not the same." I way I wrote it, made it sound like, I thought, that smaller ment more efficient, when I don't think that at all.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="rocket2222, post: 476389, member: 5362"] [/quote] So you breed them so their 5 frames and 6/8 inches wider and a foot longer so they end up weighing what a normal 6 frame weighs. Then because they are 4/6 inches shorter they are more efficient. I guess beings they don't have bend their necks as far down to eat, they use less energy, theres got to be a big savings there :roll: They say the reason a 5 frame is more efficient than a 6 frame is because it weighs less, not the same. The next thing they will say is these 1500/1600 5 frames don't eat any less than are old 6 frames, maybe we need to drop them down another frame score to keep the weight down, [and make them more efficient] and pretty soon ya'll be back down to the dinks of the past which diidn't work any better than the 8/9 frames in the eighties. Just my 2 cents worth. I needed to correct part of my earlier post. I wrote "The reason a 5 frame is more efficient than a 6 frame is because it weighs less, not the same." What it sould have read is, "THEY SAY the reason a 5 frame is more efficient than a 6 frame is because it weighs less, not the same." I way I wrote it, made it sound like, I thought, that smaller ment more efficient, when I don't think that at all. [/QUOTE]
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