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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1818210" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>As far as being stunted by being bred and calving young... I doubt that case can be made consistently. Maybe some... but maybe they were going to stop growing anyways.</p><p></p><p>The worse stunted cattle I've seen were either battling disease or severe malnutrition at some point in their early years. Well I guess there are also the inbred and deformed but I don't think that's what you are concerned with.</p><p></p><p>The best cow I've ever seen for calf weight to cow weight ratio at weaning was a stunted Holstein with a big head and a tiny body. The neighbor up the road had the cow and she would be bred to a good beef bull and raise a calf as big as she was at weaning time. I'd say she was 700 pounds and she'd raise a 700 pound calf. Butt fugly cow but she was a calf raising machine...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1818210, member: 42463"] As far as being stunted by being bred and calving young... I doubt that case can be made consistently. Maybe some... but maybe they were going to stop growing anyways. The worse stunted cattle I've seen were either battling disease or severe malnutrition at some point in their early years. Well I guess there are also the inbred and deformed but I don't think that's what you are concerned with. The best cow I've ever seen for calf weight to cow weight ratio at weaning was a stunted Holstein with a big head and a tiny body. The neighbor up the road had the cow and she would be bred to a good beef bull and raise a calf as big as she was at weaning time. I'd say she was 700 pounds and she'd raise a 700 pound calf. Butt fugly cow but she was a calf raising machine... [/QUOTE]
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