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<blockquote data-quote="djinwa" data-source="post: 1031710" data-attributes="member: 8265"><p>I may be stating the obvious here, but let me throw this out for critique.</p><p></p><p>Besides frame and weight, what about body type, as in degree of muscling? I was once telling a guy his heavy muscled cow looked good, and he said, yep, but she sure eats a lot!</p><p></p><p>Since then I've learned that muscle is more metabolically active, so takes more energy to maintain. So seems to me you want a more feminine cow bred to a high muscled bull.</p><p></p><p>Now whenever I see someone post pictures of well muscled cows, I wonder how much they eat. I understand if they're being used to produce terminal, heavy muscled bulls.</p><p></p><p>So I've considered the ideal cow might be a longhorn/jersey cross, bred to a heavy muscled, high growth bull. Easy calving cow, that would put energy into the calf instead of into maintaining muscle mass. I guess the problem might be when the calf looks like the longhorn/jersey side instead of the bull. And getting replacements. Maybe need separate herds to produce cows vs bulls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djinwa, post: 1031710, member: 8265"] I may be stating the obvious here, but let me throw this out for critique. Besides frame and weight, what about body type, as in degree of muscling? I was once telling a guy his heavy muscled cow looked good, and he said, yep, but she sure eats a lot! Since then I've learned that muscle is more metabolically active, so takes more energy to maintain. So seems to me you want a more feminine cow bred to a high muscled bull. Now whenever I see someone post pictures of well muscled cows, I wonder how much they eat. I understand if they're being used to produce terminal, heavy muscled bulls. So I've considered the ideal cow might be a longhorn/jersey cross, bred to a heavy muscled, high growth bull. Easy calving cow, that would put energy into the calf instead of into maintaining muscle mass. I guess the problem might be when the calf looks like the longhorn/jersey side instead of the bull. And getting replacements. Maybe need separate herds to produce cows vs bulls. [/QUOTE]
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