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<blockquote data-quote="wstevenl" data-source="post: 573048" data-attributes="member: 8201"><p>I can't understand why people get so defensive and upset over smaller framed cattle. There are plenty of people that see raising meat goats as a good thing and it seems as though people are making money off of it but you want to have a bull that's only 47" tall and all of the sudden you're crazy. </p><p> </p><p>Are these numbers just a lie or do people think that they are offset by the extra cost of killing more animals for the same lbs of beef? </p><p> - from an article online.</p><p></p><p>Even if it wasn't more efficient to have smaller framed cattle I'd still do it for our small/direct market farm. I just went to a state fair in IL. and was in aww of how big and fat all the cattle were. The Heifer classes looked like a fatted steer class and a few of the bulls that were laying down looked like the needed an overhead crane to help them get up they really looked miserable. Their dewlaps were super thick with fat and they all walked awkwardly. The only animals there that looked "normal" to my eyes were the shorthorns that actually seemed proportional and healthy rather than fat. I was also disturbed by the manure... it was all 1/4 to 1/3 full of corn. What really is the point in feeding young heifers like they're in a feed lot so that someone can put them on pasture and not know how they will actually hold up?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wstevenl, post: 573048, member: 8201"] I can't understand why people get so defensive and upset over smaller framed cattle. There are plenty of people that see raising meat goats as a good thing and it seems as though people are making money off of it but you want to have a bull that's only 47" tall and all of the sudden you're crazy. Are these numbers just a lie or do people think that they are offset by the extra cost of killing more animals for the same lbs of beef? - from an article online. Even if it wasn't more efficient to have smaller framed cattle I'd still do it for our small/direct market farm. I just went to a state fair in IL. and was in aww of how big and fat all the cattle were. The Heifer classes looked like a fatted steer class and a few of the bulls that were laying down looked like the needed an overhead crane to help them get up they really looked miserable. Their dewlaps were super thick with fat and they all walked awkwardly. The only animals there that looked "normal" to my eyes were the shorthorns that actually seemed proportional and healthy rather than fat. I was also disturbed by the manure... it was all 1/4 to 1/3 full of corn. What really is the point in feeding young heifers like they're in a feed lot so that someone can put them on pasture and not know how they will actually hold up? [/QUOTE]
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