culls deadweight grades

What does a P-3 look like when living , sent cull holstein cows in deadweight all at of the palour . i would of called condition 3 so was suprised when they came P- with the best cow P-3 thou weighed 346 kg ?
 

Spudley

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Nearly all of our Holstein culls will be P-. We don't fatten them up, and they go straight from the parlour. Freisian and crossbred cows will nearly always be P+3 with the occasional O.
I'd guess this would be a P+3

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And this would be a P-3

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