ANEQ 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Red Angus, Weaning, Rib Eye Steak
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100 points: you are looking for a red angus bull to purchase or to purchase semen on to use in your herd. You have narrowed down the list to the following bulls (registration number is listed you will need to look up on www. redangus. org ): You sell weaned calves and retain replacement females from within your herd. Why: using the scenario in d (no longer selling at weaning), assume the economic values of marbling score is . 10 and ribeye area is $. 30. Roy sells his calves at weaning and after that he never sees them again. So roy selects his replacement heifers and chooses his herd bulls based on weaning weight and to no surprise his weaning weights have gone up. This seems to work for several years until the cattle buyers no longer want his calves, they say they are too big and are getting docked by the packers for overweight carcasses.
