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Cattle frame scores

What Frame size of cattle do you like?

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MsSage

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Looking at the beef frame size and trying to get a Jersey to fit was hard.
Now, Shoer wants bigger cow a 3-4 size.
 
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Anonymous

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ANGUS327 said:
I like 1000# cows that raise 650# calves and live until they're 18. :D :D

Yep-- My camera died on me when I trailed heifers and first calvers home the other day...When I get a new one I'd like to get a picture of one first calver baldy out of a little hereford cow and the old double bred 6807 bulls I had that will probably never make a 4 frame- weighs under 1000 lbs and has a steer calf on her that will weigh 600+ come the first of Nov..
If I could make them that way everytime- I'd take a whole herd of them...
 

mytfarms

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Wouldn't that be great! A whole entire herd of low input cows cranking out good, right size calves for 18 years. Heck, ranchers might start making some money if we took that approach....
 

PureCountry

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The most common frame size that seems to consistently work out in our environment/resource base, is always under a frame 5. The best seem to be frame 4 or smaller, and weight largely depends on body type. We've had some frame 2 cows weigh 800lbs, and some weigh 1300lbs.

Anyway, to me the more important focus should be on profit per cow, not size of cow. That being said, here's my most profitable beef cow, all purebred stuff aside, talking strictly commercial beef production......................
Claire_Sept_2008.jpg

She weighed 700lbs when I bought her(thin), and weighs 740 now. She's between 42" and 44" tall, making her a Frame 1 at most. That's her natural heifer calf, out of a polled Hereford bull(bred when I bought her), standing 2" taller than Momma.

Some more angles:
Claire_Sept_2008_2.jpg


Claire_Sept_2008_3.jpg


Here's another pic of a cow that's my type, and one I have to keep because the grandparents gave her to my daughter as her 1st Christmas present, 12 years ago. Can you pick out which one I like? Any guesses as to which one makes more money?
6L_beside_11F.jpg
 

ANGUS327

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Oldtimer said:
ANGUS327 said:
I like 1000# cows that raise 650# calves and live until they're 18. :D :D

Yep-- My camera died on me when I trailed heifers and first calvers home the other day...When I get a new one I'd like to get a picture of one first calver baldy out of a little hereford cow and the old double bred 6807 bulls I had that will probably never make a 4 frame- weighs under 1000 lbs and has a steer calf on her that will weigh 600+ come the first of Nov..
If I could make them that way everytime- I'd take a whole herd of them...

I actually have a cow similiar to the one I described she's not 18 she's only 11 and the only reason I kept her was she froze her ears and tail as a baby and isn't real pretty to look at and would have been docked at sale time but has made me more money than the fancy slick fat sows in the herd.
 
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