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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 723622" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Good grief, DOC. Doctor Long wins this one hands down.</p><p></p><p>Belgium Blues (double muscled breeds) have the same muscle structure as a Jersey, but they have more muscle fibers in each muscle. They don't get that way because of exercise. You could exercise a Jersy bull his entire life and he'd never get Belgium Blue-type muscles.</p><p></p><p>Yes, exercise can enlarge muscles that are being worked, but weight lifters are BORN with the same muscle proportion as everybody else. And so are cattle. I don't believe you can select for animals that will produce larger high end cuts without selecting overall for larger cattle.</p><p></p><p>I'll repost this link. There is a lot more in the article than the two comments that I posted:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.angusjournal.com/articlepdf/02aj_beeflogic.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.angusjournal.com/articlepdf/ ... flogic.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 723622, member: 13"] Good grief, DOC. Doctor Long wins this one hands down. Belgium Blues (double muscled breeds) have the same muscle structure as a Jersey, but they have more muscle fibers in each muscle. They don't get that way because of exercise. You could exercise a Jersy bull his entire life and he'd never get Belgium Blue-type muscles. Yes, exercise can enlarge muscles that are being worked, but weight lifters are BORN with the same muscle proportion as everybody else. And so are cattle. I don't believe you can select for animals that will produce larger high end cuts without selecting overall for larger cattle. I'll repost this link. There is a lot more in the article than the two comments that I posted: [url=http://www.angusjournal.com/articlepdf/02aj_beeflogic.pdf]http://www.angusjournal.com/articlepdf/ ... flogic.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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