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<blockquote data-quote="somn" data-source="post: 365088" data-attributes="member: 3721"><p>Yes it is due to holstien breeding. The first poster asked how much grain it will take to raise a holstien calf from weaning to butcher with no available pasture and free choice hay. Those figures will get the poster very close. A lighter butcher weight will have a better feed conversion but a lighter butcher weight in a holstien will result in a lower yield and a poorer carcass grade. I'm a meat eater not a bone chewer so I tend to feed my cattle until properly finished resulting in the best possible yield and grade. People can sit on here all day long and tell me I'm doing it right or wrong but at the end of the day one fact never changes I've fed almost every breed under the sun here in North America. I have close out sheets for every pen. And grid printouts for every load that I sell on the grid. It is always in clear to see it is in black and white. Sometimes red. Three words for the red figures PPM, BSE, and Yaks.</p><p></p><p>I should have made it more clear what breed I was feeding when getting those figures. But I thought that considering I was answering a question specifically about holstiens the poster would understand my answer was about feeding holstiens. My mistake. The more I think about it I have seen on more than one once people ask questions about something specific and someone else will give them an answer that has nothing to do with the question asked. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes I believe that is an attempt to rack up their post count trying to impress unsuspecting hobbiest into believing the have a real life cowboy on the other end of the computer screen giving them advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somn, post: 365088, member: 3721"] Yes it is due to holstien breeding. The first poster asked how much grain it will take to raise a holstien calf from weaning to butcher with no available pasture and free choice hay. Those figures will get the poster very close. A lighter butcher weight will have a better feed conversion but a lighter butcher weight in a holstien will result in a lower yield and a poorer carcass grade. I'm a meat eater not a bone chewer so I tend to feed my cattle until properly finished resulting in the best possible yield and grade. People can sit on here all day long and tell me I'm doing it right or wrong but at the end of the day one fact never changes I've fed almost every breed under the sun here in North America. I have close out sheets for every pen. And grid printouts for every load that I sell on the grid. It is always in clear to see it is in black and white. Sometimes red. Three words for the red figures PPM, BSE, and Yaks. I should have made it more clear what breed I was feeding when getting those figures. But I thought that considering I was answering a question specifically about holstiens the poster would understand my answer was about feeding holstiens. My mistake. The more I think about it I have seen on more than one once people ask questions about something specific and someone else will give them an answer that has nothing to do with the question asked. Sometimes I believe that is an attempt to rack up their post count trying to impress unsuspecting hobbiest into believing the have a real life cowboy on the other end of the computer screen giving them advice. [/QUOTE]
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