Body scores

[Farm 36]

I am sorry but I need to rant . I keep hereing that a Jersey needs to look thin no they do not .They can body score to be fat if feed the proper way. Look at Agmantoo's pictures his cattle always look great and he has given pictures all year long . He had a Jersey heifer that calved and the farm that was fed the same as his other cattle and she scored the same as her herdmates. All animals need so much feed for maintace or to keep them alive then the take care of the extras such as milk production,reproduction,growth,energy to get food,stay warm,and last to put on weight or get fat. Fat is the most expensive pound of weight to put on .It take so much energy for something to happen . New cars are getting very simuliar gas milage as the 70's cars it is the weight that has changed.All the fat peple are fat because they consume more calories than they burn . If you don't eat for a week you will lose weight . We have been breeding animal for centuries and there has they still have the same feed conversion to muscle or fat .The animal have been designed to be more special task or form of meat .The beef animal is designed to grow muscle and the dairy for large volume of milk and pigs to have a large ham ,chicken for more eggs in a day ,turkey for the large breast meat, and horse for the task that they preform .I am sorry to let lose but fat people are fat because they chose to be fat if they have the self control they can be any body score they chose .If you are over 6 ft tall and have a large frame you need to weigh more but not be fatter than a 5 ft small frame person .We feed our animal to look the way they do .If I feed a person a ration you will look over time like the way the ration is designed same as animals.If you can or have an animal that can live on straight water and air head over to the university to have testing done they would like to study this and don't forget to get a patient on this because you will become very rich.Oh and by the way if anyone wants a cheap way to lose weight come work for me and I will give free room and board to lose weight but rremeber the food ration may be small . What I love about winter the most is when I work outside all day I can eat all the heathy food I can consume and not gain weight life is fun but hte rest of the year self control is the key. Well now I am done and if you like to beat me up that is fine this is my opinion and until I see data to chang my mind I will stick to my story .

[Callieslamb]

I think a jersey in good condition looks thinner than almost any other breed in good condition. Not that they have to be thin. Their hip and ribs are a bit different than other cows I know.

[Razorback21]

Don't compare yourself to other cattle producers...others have different weather, soils, grasses, etc. than your situation, and the most important thing is experience level. Agmantoo sounds like he has been doing the beef thing a long time from what I have read of his posts, so to compare your cattle to his isn't really fair. I've been raising cattle on my own for 17 years and I still feel like a neophyte! I remember trying to bring my knowledge of cattle from the Ozarks to Southern Illinois and I thought everything I learned about cattle from my father and grandfather went out the window. Each pasture and situation is different.

We had a bad winter with the calves we had in the feedlot up at the house....I don't think we fed them enough as I look at them now and I feel horrible about that, because I take pride in the cattle we produce. I only hope when they hit the pasture in a couple of weeks, they will get some muscle back on the frames and gain well this Spring.