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<blockquote data-quote="Cowbaby" data-source="post: 3581126" data-attributes="member: 46875"><p>Oh yes, wrong pronoun for most but you can feed out either the same way, The feed lots do some of both. I personally like a fat heifer unless I want to go 1500+lb big carcass and platter sized steaks. But that's just me.</p><p>The feeder guys like to aim at around 1080-1150 slaughter weight for no other reason than that is the size steaks and cuts American consumers prefer. Today's shopper doesn't want them bigger and view them as being tougher. Up to the 20and30s they feed steers all the way to 2000lbs for those humongous steaks John Wayne sits down to at Del Monico's in the movies or those steaks for two you get at the Ft. Worth Stockyard restaurants or Amarillo.</p><p></p><p>I won two trophy plaques when I was younger made from the original stockyard fences in Fort Worth in the 1800s. One of each for Champion same sex Boxcar Load of Steers and Heifers. That award takes not one but the best 144 steers or heifers in a single sale lot or what they consider how many they can cram in a boxcar. This particular sale was invitation only of the big boys where they are matching volume buyers and sellers.</p><p></p><p>I would like to say it was because I am one expert cowboy to win that but I am not. The owner of the ranch was the Vice President of the East Dallas Bank and like everything else it was political. Cronies. Plus, they wanted him to keep bringing his loads there so they give you a trinket to impress you. HA some things never change.</p><p></p><p>I still have the one for the steers after all these years. The only thing I ever won I am proud of, a piece of our 1800s history, longhorns, the now defunct Fort Worth Coliseum-"The Wall St. of the West", Life before Billy Bobs and The tourist trap it is now, end of the Chisholm trail drives all of it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]207111[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowbaby, post: 3581126, member: 46875"] Oh yes, wrong pronoun for most but you can feed out either the same way, The feed lots do some of both. I personally like a fat heifer unless I want to go 1500+lb big carcass and platter sized steaks. But that's just me. The feeder guys like to aim at around 1080-1150 slaughter weight for no other reason than that is the size steaks and cuts American consumers prefer. Today's shopper doesn't want them bigger and view them as being tougher. Up to the 20and30s they feed steers all the way to 2000lbs for those humongous steaks John Wayne sits down to at Del Monico's in the movies or those steaks for two you get at the Ft. Worth Stockyard restaurants or Amarillo. I won two trophy plaques when I was younger made from the original stockyard fences in Fort Worth in the 1800s. One of each for Champion same sex Boxcar Load of Steers and Heifers. That award takes not one but the best 144 steers or heifers in a single sale lot or what they consider how many they can cram in a boxcar. This particular sale was invitation only of the big boys where they are matching volume buyers and sellers. I would like to say it was because I am one expert cowboy to win that but I am not. The owner of the ranch was the Vice President of the East Dallas Bank and like everything else it was political. Cronies. Plus, they wanted him to keep bringing his loads there so they give you a trinket to impress you. HA some things never change. I still have the one for the steers after all these years. The only thing I ever won I am proud of, a piece of our 1800s history, longhorns, the now defunct Fort Worth Coliseum-"The Wall St. of the West", Life before Billy Bobs and The tourist trap it is now, end of the Chisholm trail drives all of it. [ATTACH=full]207111[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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