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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 1090325" data-attributes="member: 637"><p>If you want your calves to be marketable, you must consider muscle and weight this bull carries. This bull has so many areas on his body that lack muscle that he is missing major poundage.</p><p></p><p>His shoulders are not carrying enough muscle, and he does not have the "football shoulder pads" that a good AI bull shows. Lots of weight there!</p><p>He has small forearms.</p><p>This bull does not have a full rib cage and is narrow. </p><p>I personally like to see the shoulder pads really full and blend back into the ribs, and flow down into a big gut, which shows me that he will gain weight easy.</p><p>Any of the bull calves that I have raised, that have the full ribs and gut like this weigh the most. They also carry the most muscle.</p><p></p><p> He appears to be "A" framed instead of flat backed. His croup and rump are "A"framed. All of this muscling adds much weight.</p><p>Without the full rib cage, his flanks are still sunken in much like a race horse. His rump is short with no muscles from his tail down to his back leg. It sinks in instead of bulging out like a nice bull should show. He has less meat on his rump than a deer. </p><p></p><p>His muscle on his back leg should tie in low on his back leg, all the way down to his hock bone. </p><p></p><p>Some people just breed to a certain bull because someone else does. Pull up two screens from Select Sires and compare him to some of the other bulls, and see how much weight he is missing in so many areas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 1090325, member: 637"] If you want your calves to be marketable, you must consider muscle and weight this bull carries. This bull has so many areas on his body that lack muscle that he is missing major poundage. His shoulders are not carrying enough muscle, and he does not have the "football shoulder pads" that a good AI bull shows. Lots of weight there! He has small forearms. This bull does not have a full rib cage and is narrow. I personally like to see the shoulder pads really full and blend back into the ribs, and flow down into a big gut, which shows me that he will gain weight easy. Any of the bull calves that I have raised, that have the full ribs and gut like this weigh the most. They also carry the most muscle. He appears to be "A" framed instead of flat backed. His croup and rump are "A"framed. All of this muscling adds much weight. Without the full rib cage, his flanks are still sunken in much like a race horse. His rump is short with no muscles from his tail down to his back leg. It sinks in instead of bulging out like a nice bull should show. He has less meat on his rump than a deer. His muscle on his back leg should tie in low on his back leg, all the way down to his hock bone. Some people just breed to a certain bull because someone else does. Pull up two screens from Select Sires and compare him to some of the other bulls, and see how much weight he is missing in so many areas. [/QUOTE]
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