Dave
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ccr said:Dave said:They will leave the smokes and other Char crosses but the buyers will cut out any red white faced calf every time.
Dave, why is that?
I am not certain of the exact answer. But I have heard that they get too many high yield grade calves at finish and they don't have the rate of gain that others have. Now there are certainly individual calves that will do as good or better that the ones they like. However you know those big feed yards keep real good records and they will look closely at the performance from different characteristics. And they are working on the average of a certain group not what a certain individual does. As much as possible they keep track of where the calves come from too.