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<blockquote data-quote="JRGidaho`" data-source="post: 723414" data-attributes="member: 13410"><p>We used to weigh all of our cows every year so we knew what we had to work with. Our average was about 1240 and I considered those to be a little bigger than what I really wanted. I ran a lot of cow efficiency analysis and found about 1180 lb to be our optimum cow size. That means our average cow was bigger than our target optimum. Once you get cows bigger than you want, it is difficult to get them back down to where you might want them to be. Putting some Gelbvieh breeding into them was the worst mistake I made in terms of optimizing our resources. Too much milk and too much frame.</p><p></p><p>If I were given the choice of either only weigh cows or calves at weaning time, I would always choose to weigh the cows and not worry about the calves. Cow weight and how much they eat (which is proportional to body weight) has far more to do with profitability than does weaning weight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRGidaho`, post: 723414, member: 13410"] We used to weigh all of our cows every year so we knew what we had to work with. Our average was about 1240 and I considered those to be a little bigger than what I really wanted. I ran a lot of cow efficiency analysis and found about 1180 lb to be our optimum cow size. That means our average cow was bigger than our target optimum. Once you get cows bigger than you want, it is difficult to get them back down to where you might want them to be. Putting some Gelbvieh breeding into them was the worst mistake I made in terms of optimizing our resources. Too much milk and too much frame. If I were given the choice of either only weigh cows or calves at weaning time, I would always choose to weigh the cows and not worry about the calves. Cow weight and how much they eat (which is proportional to body weight) has far more to do with profitability than does weaning weight. [/QUOTE]
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