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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 642699" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>George,</p><p></p><p>I see your reasoning for a little more backfat in your environment in C TX. I am sort of on the other side of the world from those conditions. We look to support a cow on just a couple acres with intensive rotation grazing. I won't say an exact number because I'm not sure what that is even on my own place. The grazing of corn sure acts as a multiplier.</p><p></p><p>As I understand backfat that is mostly trim fat - trimmed off. My customers don't want a lot of fat around the outside. They do want marbling however. Other than EPD's based on previous generations or offspring carcass data I don't know how we can tell if an animal has low backfat and high marbling. As Jerry Huth says on his website - this is where we seem to want "antagonistic" (conflicting?) breeding goals. He also says It takes generations of recorded data to try to get there. </p><p></p><p>One of the reasons I think iut is important for every poster to put at least a general location in his ID block on the right is so that we can be aware of the environment the poster is speaking from. Raising cattle on the range in Idaho or the Prairie provinces of Canada is a different world in some ways from raising cattle in WI or maybe TN, etc. </p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 642699, member: 7509"] George, I see your reasoning for a little more backfat in your environment in C TX. I am sort of on the other side of the world from those conditions. We look to support a cow on just a couple acres with intensive rotation grazing. I won't say an exact number because I'm not sure what that is even on my own place. The grazing of corn sure acts as a multiplier. As I understand backfat that is mostly trim fat - trimmed off. My customers don't want a lot of fat around the outside. They do want marbling however. Other than EPD's based on previous generations or offspring carcass data I don't know how we can tell if an animal has low backfat and high marbling. As Jerry Huth says on his website - this is where we seem to want "antagonistic" (conflicting?) breeding goals. He also says It takes generations of recorded data to try to get there. One of the reasons I think iut is important for every poster to put at least a general location in his ID block on the right is so that we can be aware of the environment the poster is speaking from. Raising cattle on the range in Idaho or the Prairie provinces of Canada is a different world in some ways from raising cattle in WI or maybe TN, etc. Jim [/QUOTE]
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