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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 642709" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>The backfat question is one of those antagonistic traits that makes selecting cattle hard because you are pulled in two seperate ways. If you were finishing steers you want them to grade high choice on the Quality grade side meaning plenty of intramuscular fat. On the other hand if you are selling on the grid you want no backfat whatsoever so you get those YG 1 premiums and we don't have to trim the carcass. We have successfully identified some cattle which will hang a YG1 High Choice carcass.....the problem is that those freaks' sisters need that backfat to survive a winter in Montana....(or Wisconsin). "Easy fleshing" is a GOOD trait in a bull who is going to sire heifers that will be retained since a cow stores energy in her backfat while she is dry which she needs to feed that nursing calf. A cow that does NOT lay down back fat typically is a "hard doer". Meaning she needs more groceries earlier in lactatation or she literally starts starving -- there is a pic of a "hard doer" in the '60% weaning percentage' string. I like the EPDs and Hereford does need to get rid of some of that waste fat; but I would very suspicious of a bull in the top 5% of ANY breed for his low backfat number, particularly if he is also a high milk EPD bull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 642709, member: 7645"] The backfat question is one of those antagonistic traits that makes selecting cattle hard because you are pulled in two seperate ways. If you were finishing steers you want them to grade high choice on the Quality grade side meaning plenty of intramuscular fat. On the other hand if you are selling on the grid you want no backfat whatsoever so you get those YG 1 premiums and we don't have to trim the carcass. We have successfully identified some cattle which will hang a YG1 High Choice carcass.....the problem is that those freaks' sisters need that backfat to survive a winter in Montana....(or Wisconsin). "Easy fleshing" is a GOOD trait in a bull who is going to sire heifers that will be retained since a cow stores energy in her backfat while she is dry which she needs to feed that nursing calf. A cow that does NOT lay down back fat typically is a "hard doer". Meaning she needs more groceries earlier in lactatation or she literally starts starving -- there is a pic of a "hard doer" in the '60% weaning percentage' string. I like the EPDs and Hereford does need to get rid of some of that waste fat; but I would very suspicious of a bull in the top 5% of ANY breed for his low backfat number, particularly if he is also a high milk EPD bull. [/QUOTE]
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