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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 630312" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Offcourse depth and capacity is a proportional thing, but even short bulls can lack those qualities and tall bulls can have them. An animal needs to have a certain balance (not only in physical dimensions, but also production traits) to be efficient and not to create other problems (like calving difficulty, hard keepers, etc, for instance). Look at the length of his head compared to his chest depth and ask yourself again whether he is deep enough and adequately in balance?</p><p></p><p>On the leg length issue... the length of his cannon bone indicates that he is a taller later maturing type, but not extremely so. I don't think he is a frame 9 or 10, more likley a 7 - 7.5, but we don't have actual measurements or even something to use as a reference so its little more than a guess based on experience from looking at thousands of cattle.</p><p></p><p>He has more good than just his topline, the poster asked for comments and I've commented, doesn't mean you have to necceserily agree with my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 630312, member: 4353"] Offcourse depth and capacity is a proportional thing, but even short bulls can lack those qualities and tall bulls can have them. An animal needs to have a certain balance (not only in physical dimensions, but also production traits) to be efficient and not to create other problems (like calving difficulty, hard keepers, etc, for instance). Look at the length of his head compared to his chest depth and ask yourself again whether he is deep enough and adequately in balance? On the leg length issue... the length of his cannon bone indicates that he is a taller later maturing type, but not extremely so. I don't think he is a frame 9 or 10, more likley a 7 - 7.5, but we don't have actual measurements or even something to use as a reference so its little more than a guess based on experience from looking at thousands of cattle. He has more good than just his topline, the poster asked for comments and I've commented, doesn't mean you have to necceserily agree with my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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