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Phenotyping feed conversion...pictures anyone?
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<blockquote data-quote="waihou" data-source="post: 673364" data-attributes="member: 6511"><p>An interesting topic! I often wondered how much connection there was between a Feed Efficiency gene rating and how well this applied to entirely grass fed animals? It would seem that the correlation was between Feed Efficiency genes and grain fed animals performance.</p><p>There is very little grain feeding of finished stock in NZ so our animals have to do it themselves on grass only.</p><p></p><p>At the risk of putting ones head on the chopping block-here is a picture of a Murray Grey bull, last winter, (June down under)-approaching his 2nd birthday. </p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/SUEC/KRamblerJune09.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>He has been GeneSTAR tested 3/8 for Marbling, 8/8 for tenderness and 5/8 for Feed efficiency. </p><p>The MG breed averages being 1.7 for M, 6.3 for T and 4.9 for FE. </p><p>He is probably one of our shortest but probably the deepest gutted animal in proportion to his legs.</p><p>We got him for his carcase attributes-which in our operation has to be entirely grass fed, supplemented with hay/baleage in winter.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/SUEC/R2bullsCrusoe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The dark bull was geneSTAR tested 1/8 for marbling, 7/8 for tenderness and 8/8 for Feed efficiency.</p><p>He is pictured here in March after returning from being leased out to 2 seperate small herds since October, aged 18 months at this stage. He has since been moved on to the export bull beef market, carcase weight about 650lbs from memory at 20 months.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="waihou, post: 673364, member: 6511"] An interesting topic! I often wondered how much connection there was between a Feed Efficiency gene rating and how well this applied to entirely grass fed animals? It would seem that the correlation was between Feed Efficiency genes and grain fed animals performance. There is very little grain feeding of finished stock in NZ so our animals have to do it themselves on grass only. At the risk of putting ones head on the chopping block-here is a picture of a Murray Grey bull, last winter, (June down under)-approaching his 2nd birthday. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/SUEC/KRamblerJune09.jpg[/img] He has been GeneSTAR tested 3/8 for Marbling, 8/8 for tenderness and 5/8 for Feed efficiency. The MG breed averages being 1.7 for M, 6.3 for T and 4.9 for FE. He is probably one of our shortest but probably the deepest gutted animal in proportion to his legs. We got him for his carcase attributes-which in our operation has to be entirely grass fed, supplemented with hay/baleage in winter. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/SUEC/R2bullsCrusoe.jpg[/img] The dark bull was geneSTAR tested 1/8 for marbling, 7/8 for tenderness and 8/8 for Feed efficiency. He is pictured here in March after returning from being leased out to 2 seperate small herds since October, aged 18 months at this stage. He has since been moved on to the export bull beef market, carcase weight about 650lbs from memory at 20 months. [/QUOTE]
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