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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 197600" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>I make the example of the tall, big profiling slab sided freaks of the late 80s early 90s simply to set an example that EVERYBODY would agree on of a cow being "too big". Those are the ones we can all agree on that we don't want. Obviously a wide sprung, thick, wide tracking frame score 6 in good flesh is going to be an easier keeper than that post legged frame 9 EVEN if the two are both of the same weight. Down here in Alabama grazing fescue, dallisgrass, and sericea lespedeza I would probably classify both 1750 lb cows as "too big" for me; though that six frame tank MIGHT do really well in more idyllic conditions in Iowa or on an Alabama farm with more intensive management. I also suspect that a cow that would be a frame 6 1750 lb cow in Saskatchewan would be a frame 5 1500 lb cow IF it had grown up in Alabama. "Scotch Cap" was a frame 7 Angus moose; but all the daughters I can personally remember were moderate framed easy keeping gals who could make it almost anywhere (of course the Southern cow herd at the time had a role in that too).</p><p></p><p>I am not really worried about what frame score a bull's progeny are at one year old. Heck commercial calves sell by the pound. The more pounds the better on that end. Where frame really affects the bottom line is precisely at that six year old cow you are wintering. Hereford needs to add the $EN EPD that Angus has.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 197600, member: 2095"] I make the example of the tall, big profiling slab sided freaks of the late 80s early 90s simply to set an example that EVERYBODY would agree on of a cow being "too big". Those are the ones we can all agree on that we don't want. Obviously a wide sprung, thick, wide tracking frame score 6 in good flesh is going to be an easier keeper than that post legged frame 9 EVEN if the two are both of the same weight. Down here in Alabama grazing fescue, dallisgrass, and sericea lespedeza I would probably classify both 1750 lb cows as "too big" for me; though that six frame tank MIGHT do really well in more idyllic conditions in Iowa or on an Alabama farm with more intensive management. I also suspect that a cow that would be a frame 6 1750 lb cow in Saskatchewan would be a frame 5 1500 lb cow IF it had grown up in Alabama. "Scotch Cap" was a frame 7 Angus moose; but all the daughters I can personally remember were moderate framed easy keeping gals who could make it almost anywhere (of course the Southern cow herd at the time had a role in that too). I am not really worried about what frame score a bull's progeny are at one year old. Heck commercial calves sell by the pound. The more pounds the better on that end. Where frame really affects the bottom line is precisely at that six year old cow you are wintering. Hereford needs to add the $EN EPD that Angus has. [/QUOTE]
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