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<blockquote data-quote="Willow Springs" data-source="post: 715872" data-attributes="member: 9002"><p>I had a professor in university that did just that. He grew up being taught to judge cattle like most of us did. By the time he had his doctorate he realized a lot of what we had been selecting for was simply our eyes playing tricks with us. He had done visual animal appraisal and cut-outs and realized that the bones were all proportional to each other. A longer bodied animal is generally a larger framed animal. Depth of body (generally created by larger internal organs, more gut fill, internal fat, external fat) and body condition can make an animal appear shorter bodied. An animal is a physical being, which means that it functions according to the laws of physics. If everything is not in the right balance the animal ceases to function at an optimal level. As producers we can create an environment for that animal to produce, but it isn't profitable in todays global market.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willow Springs, post: 715872, member: 9002"] I had a professor in university that did just that. He grew up being taught to judge cattle like most of us did. By the time he had his doctorate he realized a lot of what we had been selecting for was simply our eyes playing tricks with us. He had done visual animal appraisal and cut-outs and realized that the bones were all proportional to each other. A longer bodied animal is generally a larger framed animal. Depth of body (generally created by larger internal organs, more gut fill, internal fat, external fat) and body condition can make an animal appear shorter bodied. An animal is a physical being, which means that it functions according to the laws of physics. If everything is not in the right balance the animal ceases to function at an optimal level. As producers we can create an environment for that animal to produce, but it isn't profitable in todays global market. [/QUOTE]
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