Cattle weights

[Will hockridge]

Hi there just after some comparisons hard to find anything online for what I’d like, I’d like to see and compare what other peoples cattle weigh at the different ages and see how mine are doing as I always seem to look and think well should they be heavier then that at this age but you know how it is, so for example I’ve got 50 head of cattle mixture of ages mainly
BBX AAX AND LIMX with a few exceptions looking to compare at the 10-12 month age groups 20 months and what your getting out the cattle when your sending them away for killing at live weight! Or maybe someone has an average diagram handy many thanks will

 

[jackrussell101]

Ours tend to be around the 350-400kg at the 12 month point

 

[Timbo]

With the exception of dairy bred type cattle, you want to see ~1kg / day of age plus the birth weight at 12 months - so 400kg for a steer, perhaps 430kg for a bull and 370 for a heifer. - Angus will be abit less, the Lims should easily do this.

 

[Breedr]

, I’d like to see and compare what other peoples cattle weigh at the different ages and see how mine are doing as I always seem to look and think well should they be heavier then that at this age but you know how it is, so for example I’ve got 50 head of cattle mixture of ages mainly

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[Raider112]

A lot of variables, depends if you are aiming to kill them at 12 months or 26 months, you are obviously taking them older so don't beat yourself up by comparing yours to cattle in a different method.
On another thread we had people who push them hard and someone who reared them very cheaply so you only need to compare like for like.

 

[HarryB97]

There are so many variables, it mainly depends on your system. New leys or old leys, paddock grazed or housed?

 

[Sandpit Farm]

I have a spreadsheet I use for dairy heifers that I got from AHDB. If you message me your email, I can email it across. I can't see why it would be much different. You are still aiming for early puberty and calving at 24 months. Basically these are the targets:

Month	Av of above
	% mature weight
0​	6.2​
1​	9.8​
2​	12.5​
3​	16.3​
4​	19.7​
5​
6​	27.7​
7​
8​
9​	37.1​
10​
11​
12​	47.5​
13​
14​
15​	60.1​
16​
17​
18​	70.7​
19​
20​
21​
22​
23​
24​	90.8​

 

[Sandpit Farm]

You just have to know what your target mature weight is. I guess it would be good to try to achieve greater growths than this for finishing cattle though. Dairy heifers are usually an average of 0.8-0.95kg/day

 

[Samcowman]

How are you feeding them. Have been weaning here this week and putting some trailer loads of fresh weaned calves over the weighbridge. Steers have been averaging 330-340 with heifers 310-320 these are mostly Angus born end of feb to mid April out of heifers and cows no creep feeding.

 

[Matthew Britton]

Our September-November born Lims go away May-August at 350-360kgs for bulls and November at same weight for heifers. Bulls get creep fed from February and heifers from weaning at beginning of September.