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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 355169" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>from what I've seen is that if you stay to the middle of the road, which is frame 4-5 in my case, you can still select for growth without increasing frame score.</p><p></p><p>I live in a harsh environment and due to consitions you can say there are similarities to my way of doing things and those of kit Pharo. From my experience as soon as you go smaller than a frame 4 you simply havn't got the selection of bulls to choose from and I find that these really small cows are harder keepers than the frame 4-5 cows. The opposite is equally true about cows taller than frame 6. The taller cows that struggled to maintain themselves on the veld while nursing a calf didn't wean heavier calves than the frame 4-5 cows, but didn't cost any more as they weren't fed.</p><p></p><p>The smaller than frame 4 cows weaned calves about the same weight as the rest of the herd, but after weaning the growth rate of the calves was greatly reduced compared to the larger framed calves.</p><p></p><p>My drawn out point being, figure out what works for you and what you can market and breed accordingly, not giving much thought to extremist opinions either way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 355169, member: 4353"] from what I've seen is that if you stay to the middle of the road, which is frame 4-5 in my case, you can still select for growth without increasing frame score. I live in a harsh environment and due to consitions you can say there are similarities to my way of doing things and those of kit Pharo. From my experience as soon as you go smaller than a frame 4 you simply havn't got the selection of bulls to choose from and I find that these really small cows are harder keepers than the frame 4-5 cows. The opposite is equally true about cows taller than frame 6. The taller cows that struggled to maintain themselves on the veld while nursing a calf didn't wean heavier calves than the frame 4-5 cows, but didn't cost any more as they weren't fed. The smaller than frame 4 cows weaned calves about the same weight as the rest of the herd, but after weaning the growth rate of the calves was greatly reduced compared to the larger framed calves. My drawn out point being, figure out what works for you and what you can market and breed accordingly, not giving much thought to extremist opinions either way. [/QUOTE]
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