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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 522285" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>I cannot see how a FCR of 1.81:1 can be accurate at all. Do a search of FCR of various accurate bull tests and compare with your bull's results.</p><p></p><p>The bull may very well be an true outlier, and outliers on the lower end is just as possible as outliers on the higher end. The number you've quoted is just so far of the norm that very few people who have tested bulls will believe that. Or there may be another way of calculating a FCR in the USA as opposed to the rest of the world?</p><p></p><p>Typically its the ratio of the total amount of feed taken in during the entire test to the total amount gained on the entire test. That is not including the adaption period. If you said it was 4.81:1 I would have congratulated you on breeding a very efficient converting animal. The hereford breed's FCR in a test done in Australia was 5.8:1 a few years ago. (and that is not every animal in the breed tested, but a combined figure for all the bullcalves tested that year in the entire country)</p><p></p><p>Pigs convert at about 3.5:1 and chickens are very similar, 1.81:1 is very much an outlier in the bovine world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 522285, member: 4353"] I cannot see how a FCR of 1.81:1 can be accurate at all. Do a search of FCR of various accurate bull tests and compare with your bull's results. The bull may very well be an true outlier, and outliers on the lower end is just as possible as outliers on the higher end. The number you've quoted is just so far of the norm that very few people who have tested bulls will believe that. Or there may be another way of calculating a FCR in the USA as opposed to the rest of the world? Typically its the ratio of the total amount of feed taken in during the entire test to the total amount gained on the entire test. That is not including the adaption period. If you said it was 4.81:1 I would have congratulated you on breeding a very efficient converting animal. The hereford breed's FCR in a test done in Australia was 5.8:1 a few years ago. (and that is not every animal in the breed tested, but a combined figure for all the bullcalves tested that year in the entire country) Pigs convert at about 3.5:1 and chickens are very similar, 1.81:1 is very much an outlier in the bovine world. [/QUOTE]
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