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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1326636" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>And if these cattle are typical of sale bulls and fed steer data the rind fat will be about 100+ pounds of trim and waste plus excessive seam fat. Type matters in BW, CED, muscling, skeletal size and waste. There has to be a balance. </p><p></p><p>My concern/experience is that some +CED bulls will have lesser muscling and the intake of the average amount of grazing leaves the animals no option but to put on extra fat to use the energy that the extra or normal amount of muscles would have utilized. </p><p></p><p>Are the true low BW bulls low weight because they are small, thin muscled or what? Something has to be given up to make them lighter. And BW and calf shape is generally linked to MW and mature size. If a calf is tall at birth he will generally be tall at maturity. If he is squatty at birth, ... Somehow, and most of you can tell me, but frame size moderates a lot of this to allow easier birth, to a point, of the calf's shape being longer and less prone to hang at the shoulders or the hips, the muscles can be smooth and not bunched and the appropriate amount of muscling allows animals to avoid normal intake leading to obesity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1326636, member: 24565"] And if these cattle are typical of sale bulls and fed steer data the rind fat will be about 100+ pounds of trim and waste plus excessive seam fat. Type matters in BW, CED, muscling, skeletal size and waste. There has to be a balance. My concern/experience is that some +CED bulls will have lesser muscling and the intake of the average amount of grazing leaves the animals no option but to put on extra fat to use the energy that the extra or normal amount of muscles would have utilized. Are the true low BW bulls low weight because they are small, thin muscled or what? Something has to be given up to make them lighter. And BW and calf shape is generally linked to MW and mature size. If a calf is tall at birth he will generally be tall at maturity. If he is squatty at birth, ... Somehow, and most of you can tell me, but frame size moderates a lot of this to allow easier birth, to a point, of the calf's shape being longer and less prone to hang at the shoulders or the hips, the muscles can be smooth and not bunched and the appropriate amount of muscling allows animals to avoid normal intake leading to obesity. [/QUOTE]
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