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<blockquote data-quote="alexfarms" data-source="post: 752310" data-attributes="member: 8677"><p>Cattle are very adaptable. As long as they are getting an adequate diet no one environment is "tougher" than another. What makes cattle "melt down" is a change in environment. Especially when you take a mature animal and remove it from the environment it was raised in and plant it in a different environment it becomes very stressed and needs time to adapt to its new environment. When I lived in northeast Nebraska in a very good productive land area, I purchased cattle from Miles City (where they claim to give pairs 25+ acres each), western Nebraska sandhills and west Texas cactus country and all of them melted down to some extent when I brought them to a "better" land area. Most of them got culled within a couple years and they all would have if I hadn't given them either extra care or an extra chance. I have had better results transplanting young animals from any environment to another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alexfarms, post: 752310, member: 8677"] Cattle are very adaptable. As long as they are getting an adequate diet no one environment is "tougher" than another. What makes cattle "melt down" is a change in environment. Especially when you take a mature animal and remove it from the environment it was raised in and plant it in a different environment it becomes very stressed and needs time to adapt to its new environment. When I lived in northeast Nebraska in a very good productive land area, I purchased cattle from Miles City (where they claim to give pairs 25+ acres each), western Nebraska sandhills and west Texas cactus country and all of them melted down to some extent when I brought them to a "better" land area. Most of them got culled within a couple years and they all would have if I hadn't given them either extra care or an extra chance. I have had better results transplanting young animals from any environment to another. [/QUOTE]
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