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<blockquote data-quote="djinwa" data-source="post: 989594" data-attributes="member: 8265"><p>I've had a few British Whites. You can ignore what the guy is telling you. Generalizations are often worthless - alot depends on the individual breeder and individual animal.</p><p></p><p>One heifer I bought at 8 months turned out to have been bred at 6 months - she calved a 70 pounder at age 15 months. I figured she'd need a c-section, but it came with a hard pull. Imagine how easy if we'd bred her at 12 months, let alone the standard 15 months.</p><p></p><p>70 pound calves were the average in the herd she came from. I was expecting smaller from her, but I think I fed her too well over concerns of her being stunted.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, she raised a nice steer calf, which was at frame 3 to 4, even with me stealing a quart or two of milk daily from his mom for months. His mom was frame 3. Here's frame sizes if you're not familiar. Adjusted for age.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.angus.org/Performance/AHIR/PerfFrameScore.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.angus.org/Performance/AHIR/P ... Score.aspx</a></p><p></p><p>Here he is just before butchering last September at around 15 months old after very little grain - a few handfuls a day.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/djinwa/IMG_1861.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djinwa, post: 989594, member: 8265"] I've had a few British Whites. You can ignore what the guy is telling you. Generalizations are often worthless - alot depends on the individual breeder and individual animal. One heifer I bought at 8 months turned out to have been bred at 6 months - she calved a 70 pounder at age 15 months. I figured she'd need a c-section, but it came with a hard pull. Imagine how easy if we'd bred her at 12 months, let alone the standard 15 months. 70 pound calves were the average in the herd she came from. I was expecting smaller from her, but I think I fed her too well over concerns of her being stunted. Anyway, she raised a nice steer calf, which was at frame 3 to 4, even with me stealing a quart or two of milk daily from his mom for months. His mom was frame 3. Here's frame sizes if you're not familiar. Adjusted for age. [url=http://www.angus.org/Performance/AHIR/PerfFrameScore.aspx]http://www.angus.org/Performance/AHIR/P ... Score.aspx[/url] Here he is just before butchering last September at around 15 months old after very little grain - a few handfuls a day. [img]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/djinwa/IMG_1861.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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