- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
The joys of not living in the UK! You can sell beef at any weight you like down here, and I take it the US is similar in this respect. Ideally here you'd want a carcass over 225kg but other than that, whatever fits your environmentCalve at 2 here. Not too much problem getting them in calf 2nd time around except last summer had a few more than usual empty due to the lack of rain.
For the chat about cow weaning efficiency I haven’t found big cows last any longer than smaller cows and I have no problem with a big cow pulling her weight and I have some that do but on average they don’t.
@Kiwi Pete Kit Pharo is pretty interesting but I still think cow weight doesn’t want to get too small as that will affect your end market unless you are direct marketing where the story and taste sells not so much the size of cut.