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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 985118" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Temperatures have been really brutally cold with wind. I am giving my cows a bit more grain than usual along with my best hay. But giving them some grain in the fenceline bunks this afternoon I was looking at the pin to hook dimension on a variety of cows as they ate.</p><p></p><p>I do have to say Harley has a point. There is a very visible difference in the pin to hook distance between different cows and cow families. I don't know what the end result of that difference is.</p><p></p><p>However just eyeballing it I would say that the ones with a longer pin to hook distance have come from the cows that have had calves with a higher percent of their hanging carcass weight end up in as saleable beef in the box. The shorter pin to hook cows have tended to have a lower net beef to carcass ratio. Maybe more bone?</p><p></p><p>On the positive side I have a few home raised heifers that have BOTH the long rib and a visibly longer hook to pin than some other similar age young cows. Hope the heifer pictured above stretches out a bit hook to pin as she grows.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the enlightenment, Harley.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 985118, member: 7509"] Temperatures have been really brutally cold with wind. I am giving my cows a bit more grain than usual along with my best hay. But giving them some grain in the fenceline bunks this afternoon I was looking at the pin to hook dimension on a variety of cows as they ate. I do have to say Harley has a point. There is a very visible difference in the pin to hook distance between different cows and cow families. I don't know what the end result of that difference is. However just eyeballing it I would say that the ones with a longer pin to hook distance have come from the cows that have had calves with a higher percent of their hanging carcass weight end up in as saleable beef in the box. The shorter pin to hook cows have tended to have a lower net beef to carcass ratio. Maybe more bone? On the positive side I have a few home raised heifers that have BOTH the long rib and a visibly longer hook to pin than some other similar age young cows. Hope the heifer pictured above stretches out a bit hook to pin as she grows. Thanks for the enlightenment, Harley. Jim [/QUOTE]
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