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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1828212" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>To be honest, they do not look any worse than many of the dairy/beef crosses... most get that "dairy" butt... all legs, not much muscle... so alot of the angus /holstein crosses look like that. The simmental dairy ones have more of a hind end ... the limousin dairy crosses go either way.. the thing is the dairy/beef cross calves are getting more common here as they gain better and eat less than the straight holstein steers... and can kill at a lighter weight than a straight holstein steer so are preferred at more of the kill plants. A good holstein steer is going to often weigh 1400-1500 or more to get the needed muscles and fat for a good kill. Realize also that the dairy and dairy crosses often grade very well because there is not a ton of fat that needs to be trimmed...but they marble fairly well..... and we do not have the market for beef tallow so they don't like alot of fat cover... still to hang well, there needs to be a certain amount of fat or it makes the meat dry out and is tougher.... that is partly where they started wet aging the carcasses I think... less shrink and moister meat is more tender.</p><p></p><p>The dairy farmers that are breeding the bottom 1/3 or 1/2 of their milking cows are getting from $300 to $500 for these black baby calves... Bigger holstein calves will bring maybe $300. Seriously... my one dairy farmer has someone that picks up their black baby calves once a week... they have 200+ milking and his dad has 250 milking on another farm... so they have 5-15 or more a week to go to market...at least half are black calves.... so on average they have at least 1 or 2 calving a day if they were spread out... and they are getting $3-500 on the farm, no commission... that's what they quoted me... their milk tester... no bargains or breaks on the price for me there....and I only wanted 1 or at most 2, calves, to go on the nurse cow. </p><p></p><p>The black beef cross baby calves out of the dairy cows are usually very very hardy.... don't have any experience with the wagyu....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1828212, member: 25884"] To be honest, they do not look any worse than many of the dairy/beef crosses... most get that "dairy" butt... all legs, not much muscle... so alot of the angus /holstein crosses look like that. The simmental dairy ones have more of a hind end ... the limousin dairy crosses go either way.. the thing is the dairy/beef cross calves are getting more common here as they gain better and eat less than the straight holstein steers... and can kill at a lighter weight than a straight holstein steer so are preferred at more of the kill plants. A good holstein steer is going to often weigh 1400-1500 or more to get the needed muscles and fat for a good kill. Realize also that the dairy and dairy crosses often grade very well because there is not a ton of fat that needs to be trimmed...but they marble fairly well..... and we do not have the market for beef tallow so they don't like alot of fat cover... still to hang well, there needs to be a certain amount of fat or it makes the meat dry out and is tougher.... that is partly where they started wet aging the carcasses I think... less shrink and moister meat is more tender. The dairy farmers that are breeding the bottom 1/3 or 1/2 of their milking cows are getting from $300 to $500 for these black baby calves... Bigger holstein calves will bring maybe $300. Seriously... my one dairy farmer has someone that picks up their black baby calves once a week... they have 200+ milking and his dad has 250 milking on another farm... so they have 5-15 or more a week to go to market...at least half are black calves.... so on average they have at least 1 or 2 calving a day if they were spread out... and they are getting $3-500 on the farm, no commission... that's what they quoted me... their milk tester... no bargains or breaks on the price for me there....and I only wanted 1 or at most 2, calves, to go on the nurse cow. The black beef cross baby calves out of the dairy cows are usually very very hardy.... don't have any experience with the wagyu.... [/QUOTE]
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