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New Mexico | so to speak generally DP higher percentage is simply because MUSCLE weighs more than fat.
Also keep in mind, you've got that muscle on a younger, generally lighter weight skeletal frame ( bone ossification rather than strait bone after ossified ) which also adds DP ( more muscle mass vs weighted bone mass ).
Your KPH drop on fat cattle is higher ( can be 2% to 5% more ) thus also a negative DP consideration.
Breed does not matter so much...as type of cattle.
Thicker, easy doing mid frame cattle work best.
Some cattle never do really cap frame affectively too.
There are genotypes that just keep on growing and end up about "half fat" weighing 1,550 to 1,650 in traditional feeding settings.
Also one will not pick up gains nor DP consistently in "soft grass" country without adding starch.
Starch tends to cap frame early thus add flesh.
Ground Ear Corn is ideal in soft grass country...also allows almost a doubling of stocking rate while considerably increasing daily gain.
btw, if a person wanted to grow frame, one either adds nothing or extra protien ( plenty of oats if your trying to burn fat OFF on say show cattle ) and a couple oils.
Cure grass ( or hard grass ) ie the Western ranges have plenty of starch so to speak in those grasses.
Westerners ever learn to add say 5 lbs of ddgs on grass and they might even start raising some serious beef tonnage in the West too.
Varies quite a bit here this year ( some decent moisture though in spots ...grass cures, then rain greens, cures again etc ), but we do have some ranches in the area which have had yearlings gain 200 + lbs so far by July 1st this year. Cattle were turned out May 1 thru May 15th.
Heck if ever a REAL wet cycle here, one wonders if there's say 500 lbs of gain achievable per yearling season.
Old rule used to be 300 lbs per season ( has varied of late from 240 lbs to 375...but in Real DRY conditions all the time ).
Run a set thru Aug 1st...then pull em and lay in another set of calves.
Edited by Markwright 7/13/2010 01:07
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