Selection
The number 1 selection criteria when picking out your calf for next year's show season?
What is Structure?
Decreased appetite, runny nose, rapid breathing, diarrhea, and fever
What is the most important nutrient when feeding out cattle or any other livestock?
What is water?
What shoulder angle is appropriate?
45 degree angle
An animal's parts and pieces blend and fit together.
What is balance?
List some things to keep on hand for in case of emergencies.
bloat treatment, thermometer, antibiotics, wound care, drench gun, probiotics, etc
How much of an animal's body weight should they be eating per meal?
What are some characteristics of an ideal market steer?
wide based, heavy muscled, finished appropriately, balanced in look, and eye appealing
Rumen, reticulum, abomasum, omasum
What are the 4 compartments of a ruminants stomach?
Where do you evaluate dimension and muscle shape in cattle?
What is spring of rib, base width, and top shape?
A steer is kicking at their belly, foaming at the mouth, and left side of rib is distended.
What is bloat?
When a steer is in its finishing stage, what nutrient helps "lay on fat"
Energy (carbs and fats)
What is it called when an animal's knee is over their pasterns?
"buck-kneed" or "over at the knee"
What is the weight range that market cattle finish out at in this industry?
1,000 to 1,500 lbs
A steer's hocks are "pulled in" or "turn in".
What is cow hocked or splay footed?
What are a few bloat treatment options?
Anti-foaming agents (mineral or vegetable oil), bloat treatment, therabloat, walking, tube down esophagus, tocar
In the growing phase, should you have a higher or lower protein content?
Higher (12-13%)
What are some aspects of eye appeal?
Length of neck, cleanliness of chest, levelness of design, attractive hip and hind leg
This by-products is used for medical sutures for stitches
What is intestines?
With this type of maturity pattern, cattle tend to finish at a lighter weight and lay on more fat cover.
What is early maturing?
Internal parasites
Why is it important to feed forage in beef cattle diets?
Promotes rumen health and function, aids in nutrient absorption, "keeps the digestive system going"
With this type of maturity patterns, animal's are typically longer and more extended, take longer to "finish" and finish at a heavier weight.
Later maturing
Define Marbling
What is intramuscular fat?