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Ideal beef cow include some dairy?
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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 373419" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>The flaw in your theory lies in the fact that the added milk production from the jersey makes for the need of a higher level of nutrition and would make the cow harder keeping and not easier keeping.</p><p></p><p>That being said, it is very possible that some dairy influence in your cow herd may add to higher weaning weights in a system where all calves are sold at weaning age. Typically 1/4 dairy inlfuenece 3/4 well planned beef influence won't hurt too many production systems, but that will only work where the environment meet the nutritional needs.</p><p></p><p>In the UK the angusXbritish friesian and angusxhereford cows are what the whole suckled beef production was based on. These cows will typically be bred to a charolais or limousin and the calf will be heavily creep fed and only be weaned at 9.5 - 10 months old and will go directly to the slaughterhouse weighing 1000-1100lbs. This type of system was upset a bit by the holstein influence making the cows harder doers and less fertile, so three way crosses become more popular now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 373419, member: 4353"] The flaw in your theory lies in the fact that the added milk production from the jersey makes for the need of a higher level of nutrition and would make the cow harder keeping and not easier keeping. That being said, it is very possible that some dairy influence in your cow herd may add to higher weaning weights in a system where all calves are sold at weaning age. Typically 1/4 dairy inlfuenece 3/4 well planned beef influence won't hurt too many production systems, but that will only work where the environment meet the nutritional needs. In the UK the angusXbritish friesian and angusxhereford cows are what the whole suckled beef production was based on. These cows will typically be bred to a charolais or limousin and the calf will be heavily creep fed and only be weaned at 9.5 - 10 months old and will go directly to the slaughterhouse weighing 1000-1100lbs. This type of system was upset a bit by the holstein influence making the cows harder doers and less fertile, so three way crosses become more popular now. [/QUOTE]
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