Oh WOW!. More craigslist hilarity

[tinknal]

"Finished Steers"

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/cs...794911159.html

[tinknal]

Oh crud, I was going for the cattle forum! Duh.

Oh well, I know how y'all enjoy stupid CL ads.

[wr]

It amused me but if you'd like, I can move it over to the cattle forum.

[arabian knight]

That is "finished enough for me.
I hardly ever go over 1,000 pounds. Even when I was raising holstein steers.
I would get "hungry" around the 950 mark.
And now that I have been raising Jersey's calves for the past 30 years they barely make it over 1000 pounds sometimes around 950 pounds, before they are in my freezer~! That gives me around 425 to 460 pounds of meat to eat depending on how close to that 1,000 I make it to. Yummy.

[oregon woodsmok]

I am missing what is funny about it. They are Jerseys so aren't going to get any bigger. They don't look like beef cattle, but they look like finished steers for a jersey to me.

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by oregon woodsmok

I am missing what is funny about it. They are Jerseys so aren't going to get any bigger. They don't look like beef cattle, but they look like finished steers for a jersey to me.

Did you look at the pictures? They were all hip bones and ribs!

Yes, wr, could you please move the thread?

[Callieslamb]

That's pretty much what a jersey looks like. I'd love to have a 1000 lb finished jersery steer! I have a 'finished' holstein steer in my barn right now. He's finished because he won't stay in his pasture. He's probably 600 lbs. He's going into a smaller woven wire fencing pasture for 2 weeks to be completely "finished" since the butcher can't get him in until then.

[bruce2288]

I gotta side with tink on this one. They may have a steer to butcher. But you can not finish a steer on grass hay particularly in January in a cold climate.

[Callieslamb]

Doesn't that depend on what you mean by "finished"? How else do you finish a grass-fed steer?

[bruce2288]

It does depend on what you mean by finished, if it just means "I am done feeding this critter and its time to butcher" ok. Finished generally means a fair degree of marbeling at least to a select grade if not choice or prime. To actually finish a grass fed steer they need a very high brix pasture. Annuals like wheat, oats or immature corn are also used. To get an animal to marbel they need a high energy diet. You have to have excellent pasture at the correct growth stage and know how to use it. Some people are doing an excellent job and others selling grass fed do not have a clue. It is much more difficult and takes more management to finish animals on pasture than on grain.

[olivehill]

Man, I don't know. I know dairy animals are slimmer than beef animals, but those two look really thin. They don't look at all "finished" to me, which usually denotes a certain body condition.

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by Callieslamb

That's pretty much what a jersey looks like. I'd love to have a 1000 lb finished jersery steer! I have a 'finished' holstein steer in my barn right now. He's finished because he won't stay in his pasture. He's probably 600 lbs. He's going into a smaller woven wire fencing pasture for 2 weeks to be completely "finished" since the butcher can't get him in until then.

I've finished Jersey beef. They look nothing like those animals. Nothing but grinding meat there. You couldn't give me a steak off of them scutters.

[springvalley]

A jersey steer is never going to look like an angus no matter how hard you try. I`ve been doing this for awhile and am still getting use to the difference, but they taste very good. We had a neighbor that grain fed some jersey steers and poured the grain to them, now those steers got huge, but I bet you dollars to doughnuts it was all fat. And I don`t need to eat fat, I`m fat enough. > Thanks Marc

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by bruce2288

It does depend on what you mean by finished, if it just means "I am done feeding this critter and its time to butcher" ok.

LOL, yep, looks to me like "finished" means "they done finished all my hay and now I need to sell them."

[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by Callieslamb

Doesn't that depend on what you mean by "finished"? How else do you finish a grass-fed steer?

"Grassfed to Finish" by Allan Nation is terrific. I think more producers need to read it so they'll stop giving grass fed a bad name.

[MO_cows]

I don't think those steers are "finished". I know dairy breeds aren't going to plump out like beef breeds, but those boys could still fill out a lot from where they were in those pictures.

[springvalley]

Originally Posted by MO_cows

I don't think those steers are "finished". I know dairy breeds aren't going to plump out like beef breeds, but those boys could still fill out a lot from where they were in those pictures.

And I can also bet they don`t weigh 1000 lbs either, but kinda hard to tell from here. > Marc

[lonelyfarmgirl]

Dairy steers finished on grass dont plump out until they hit about three years old. I think he means he is finished feeding them. They look about how they should for a dairy steer on what looks to be a low-quality protein hay diet in the middle of winter.

[goodhors]

Pretty rough looking, whatever feed he is giving them. I wouldn't like to purchase and eat them in that conditon. Meat would be tough with no marbling of any kind.

Probably cheaper to pay the per pound price, than the per head price, because I would bet they don't weigh a 1000 pounds on the hoof.

[Creamers]

I think they look too thin - my Jersey heifer, at 2 years old, ONLY grassfed - never grained since 16 weeks old, and this is a heifer and open in the photo.