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<blockquote data-quote="chippie" data-source="post: 696471" data-attributes="member: 5644"><p>Actually I wouldn't want to eat him because he would be too greasy.</p><p>However, I can feed out a beef steer to 9 months old and the same amount of meat you would get feeding him 12 months and get better quality meat. </p><p></p><p>If you put him on a diet and he lost all that fat, you wouldn't have anything left. His dressing percentage will be very small.</p><p></p><p>Another reason to put him in the freezer is that if you took him to a sale, you would lose money (unless you cut him and sold him to a petting zoo.) </p><p></p><p>Just because he is short and has testes does not make him worthy of reproducing. I think that pushing him off on some unsuspecting hobby farmer as a herd bull is despicable. </p><p>He is poor quality. He is not balanced. He is heavy through the front and has no rear. He is too short coupled. There is no guarantee that he will produce a smaller animal because he is half Hereford. His offspring could throwback. </p><p></p><p>If I were going to "downsize" my cattle, I would breed AI to the best small breed bull that I could find.</p><p></p><p>Is he the first calf that you have produced?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chippie, post: 696471, member: 5644"] Actually I wouldn't want to eat him because he would be too greasy. However, I can feed out a beef steer to 9 months old and the same amount of meat you would get feeding him 12 months and get better quality meat. If you put him on a diet and he lost all that fat, you wouldn't have anything left. His dressing percentage will be very small. Another reason to put him in the freezer is that if you took him to a sale, you would lose money (unless you cut him and sold him to a petting zoo.) Just because he is short and has testes does not make him worthy of reproducing. I think that pushing him off on some unsuspecting hobby farmer as a herd bull is despicable. He is poor quality. He is not balanced. He is heavy through the front and has no rear. He is too short coupled. There is no guarantee that he will produce a smaller animal because he is half Hereford. His offspring could throwback. If I were going to "downsize" my cattle, I would breed AI to the best small breed bull that I could find. Is he the first calf that you have produced? [/QUOTE]
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