Jake":34so75x5 said:
I just got done reading some Charlois, limo, and a few other breeds advertisement from their breeders. They advertize moderate framed cattle but show pictures of cows that have the frame of a 2100 pounder and a bull that must weigh 2800. I have come to the conclusion in the past severl months that moderate framed is becomeing a very abused advertising term. I was just wondering what all the rest of you thought...
Jake
Moderate framed is one of those not really well defined terms. Lets face it, a moderate framed elephant is a whole lot bigger then a moderate framed weanier dog.
To me moderate has alwasy been a liddle of the ground size. If the breed typically runs from FS8 to FS 4 a 6.5 would be moderate. If they run FS 4 to FS 6.5 a FS 5 would be moderate.
That's the reason if FS isn't specified, I want to lay eyes on it myself and see if it passes the armpit test. If it can walk under my arm without touching it that's as big as I want. I've found that in later years that's gotten to be a little smaller then it was 25 years ago.
But FS only tells you about height, and different people can measure the same animal at the same time with the same equipment and still get different numbers. FS doesn't take into account the width, depth or length. The weight for a given FS is based on I think the average. Whatever average is.
Now that I've spewed on about it, yes I have to agree, it's gotten to be mostly hype and hoopla.
dun