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My beef finishes tough
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<blockquote data-quote="traderaaron" data-source="post: 756223" data-attributes="member: 13840"><p>What is the weight/frame/flesh of the dam that raised it? Animals finish at a percentage of their mother so if she was 800-1000 lbs. then you might be able to raise a mature muscled beef at that weight, if she was larger then you may have a problem, grain alone doesn't make tender meat, it's more complicated than that.</p><p></p><p>Marbling and tenderness are related to maturity and frame and marbling is some of the last fat to be put on. An animal that appears fat at 1000 lbs. may not really be mature until 1200-1300 lbs. or more if the dam was 1100-1200 lbs. and thick fleshed and framed.</p><p></p><p>Grain feeding has less to do with marbling and tenderness than genetics, frame and the true mature size of an animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="traderaaron, post: 756223, member: 13840"] What is the weight/frame/flesh of the dam that raised it? Animals finish at a percentage of their mother so if she was 800-1000 lbs. then you might be able to raise a mature muscled beef at that weight, if she was larger then you may have a problem, grain alone doesn't make tender meat, it's more complicated than that. Marbling and tenderness are related to maturity and frame and marbling is some of the last fat to be put on. An animal that appears fat at 1000 lbs. may not really be mature until 1200-1300 lbs. or more if the dam was 1100-1200 lbs. and thick fleshed and framed. Grain feeding has less to do with marbling and tenderness than genetics, frame and the true mature size of an animal. [/QUOTE]
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