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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 529869" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>For the most part beef cattle are always either grazing or laying down ruminating. The temp will go up while grazing and drop considerably while ruminating due to a more totally relaxed state.</p><p></p><p>Dairy cattle eat about 3 times the amount of dry matter per day than a typical beef cow. This in effect keeps a huge fire burning inside her as she digests these materials. Additionally she is almost always in a state of excitement, stress and movement. Her upper temperature is affected by all these activities but her bottom temp will also be higher than a beef cow because hardly ever is she able to totally get away from these outside influences and she is producing large quantities of milk, thus the overall range will be smaller. The dairy cow is like a machine that is always running, occasionally idleing but never totally turned off....a beef cow is more like a machine that is turned on and then turned off, several times a day, thus a wider range of temperatures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 529869, member: 6897"] For the most part beef cattle are always either grazing or laying down ruminating. The temp will go up while grazing and drop considerably while ruminating due to a more totally relaxed state. Dairy cattle eat about 3 times the amount of dry matter per day than a typical beef cow. This in effect keeps a huge fire burning inside her as she digests these materials. Additionally she is almost always in a state of excitement, stress and movement. Her upper temperature is affected by all these activities but her bottom temp will also be higher than a beef cow because hardly ever is she able to totally get away from these outside influences and she is producing large quantities of milk, thus the overall range will be smaller. The dairy cow is like a machine that is always running, occasionally idleing but never totally turned off....a beef cow is more like a machine that is turned on and then turned off, several times a day, thus a wider range of temperatures. [/QUOTE]
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