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<blockquote data-quote="Beef Man" data-source="post: 1001334" data-attributes="member: 13859"><p>A scale is to weigh things and a tape is to measure things. About 15 years ago we took a bunch of cow's on shares and always have weighed every calf born with a hanging scale so we were doing these share cattle the same as our own. One day the cow's owner said thatwe must have wintered his cows awfully well as the birthweights were running a lot bigger than normal. After some disscusion it was decided to try both methods which we did and sure enough there was a difference. There is a lot of different ways to place the tape and darn sure different ways to measure. We use our bale unroller,place the calf in the sling, hook the hanging scale to the slingand then to the arm on the bale roller,push the button and up goes calf rcord the weight tatoo and tag dehorn[usually with paste] set the calf back down and all done no sweat and most of the muscle used is between our ears. Someone once mentioned if they were within 10-12 lb's that was close enough,B.S. 10 lb's on a newborn is a lot. On the subject of weight and what is big and or small have any of you ever heard it said that a cow should be able to handle a birthweight of about 8% of her weight[1000@8%=80--- but1600@8%=128 has always puzzled me if I had a 16-1700 cow and she had this calf that really did weigh the supposidly 8% I'm darn sure that he would be a heckuva thing to sell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beef Man, post: 1001334, member: 13859"] A scale is to weigh things and a tape is to measure things. About 15 years ago we took a bunch of cow's on shares and always have weighed every calf born with a hanging scale so we were doing these share cattle the same as our own. One day the cow's owner said thatwe must have wintered his cows awfully well as the birthweights were running a lot bigger than normal. After some disscusion it was decided to try both methods which we did and sure enough there was a difference. There is a lot of different ways to place the tape and darn sure different ways to measure. We use our bale unroller,place the calf in the sling, hook the hanging scale to the slingand then to the arm on the bale roller,push the button and up goes calf rcord the weight tatoo and tag dehorn[usually with paste] set the calf back down and all done no sweat and most of the muscle used is between our ears. Someone once mentioned if they were within 10-12 lb's that was close enough,B.S. 10 lb's on a newborn is a lot. On the subject of weight and what is big and or small have any of you ever heard it said that a cow should be able to handle a birthweight of about 8% of her weight[1000@8%=80--- but1600@8%=128 has always puzzled me if I had a 16-1700 cow and she had this calf that really did weigh the supposidly 8% I'm darn sure that he would be a heckuva thing to sell. [/QUOTE]
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