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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1840088" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I wouldn't think she would want to, Murray. Especially any of her black ones. CAB requires the hot carcass weight to be less than 1100 pounds. Once an animal approaches 1600 lb or so, chances are the HCW will exceed that. It is a fine line you have to watch carefully. The man that Clay works for, that feeds out 900 or so Brangus x Criollo calves, has a contract with a buyer for a high-end steak house chain. The buyer pays him for only CAB prime+ carcasses at the processor. He feeds these calves at his place on sorghum silage, spent mash from the Budweiser plant. chicken litter and cotton seed and gin waste. Hgh protein for growth. He does this for 120 days, then sends them to feed lot in OK for 120 days on corn. He bought 30 of the Chi-ang x Black simm and Black Simm x Chi-Angus steers from the man Clay helped last July 4th. They were about 600 or more pounds when weaned at 6 mos old. He fed these for just 90 days at his place, then 90 days at the feed lot. He also bought the 1/2 Chiangus 1/2 Plummer from us when we bought the herd. The heifers averaged weighing 700 lbs, and the steers closer to 800. He fed them at his place for either 45 or 60 days, (I forgot which) then sent them to feed lot for 120 days. Actually, Clay said it was more like 140 days. Out of the 22, 2 of them didn't get the CAB prime+ grade, because the HCW exceeded 1110 pounds. They graded prime, but didn't make CAB. He sold those to the processor. For the nay-sayers, not all good black beef makes it to CAB. This man has been doing this for about 25 years now, and knows how long to feed them there, and how long to keep them at the feed lot. Or whether to even send them to that feed lot and put them in that program. He gets it right with the vast majority of the cattle, but not always.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1840088, member: 40587"] I wouldn't think she would want to, Murray. Especially any of her black ones. CAB requires the hot carcass weight to be less than 1100 pounds. Once an animal approaches 1600 lb or so, chances are the HCW will exceed that. It is a fine line you have to watch carefully. The man that Clay works for, that feeds out 900 or so Brangus x Criollo calves, has a contract with a buyer for a high-end steak house chain. The buyer pays him for only CAB prime+ carcasses at the processor. He feeds these calves at his place on sorghum silage, spent mash from the Budweiser plant. chicken litter and cotton seed and gin waste. Hgh protein for growth. He does this for 120 days, then sends them to feed lot in OK for 120 days on corn. He bought 30 of the Chi-ang x Black simm and Black Simm x Chi-Angus steers from the man Clay helped last July 4th. They were about 600 or more pounds when weaned at 6 mos old. He fed these for just 90 days at his place, then 90 days at the feed lot. He also bought the 1/2 Chiangus 1/2 Plummer from us when we bought the herd. The heifers averaged weighing 700 lbs, and the steers closer to 800. He fed them at his place for either 45 or 60 days, (I forgot which) then sent them to feed lot for 120 days. Actually, Clay said it was more like 140 days. Out of the 22, 2 of them didn't get the CAB prime+ grade, because the HCW exceeded 1110 pounds. They graded prime, but didn't make CAB. He sold those to the processor. For the nay-sayers, not all good black beef makes it to CAB. This man has been doing this for about 25 years now, and knows how long to feed them there, and how long to keep them at the feed lot. Or whether to even send them to that feed lot and put them in that program. He gets it right with the vast majority of the cattle, but not always. [/QUOTE]
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