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adding fat

  • 19-06-2013 8:58am
    #1
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭


    I had a belgium blue recently that had to low a fat score. How would I go about adding fat to an animal? He was on at leat 3kg of meal a day.


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  • #2
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    i am not a expert,but bb are a lean breed and are going to be harder to put fat on, now all bb are different as in what their mother was and were they muscly , i killed a e grade bb heifer for the freezer the butcher said he never saw a heifer so lean,but on the other hand he never saw so much meat to come off a littlc carcase.


  • #3
    reilig
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    Also not an expert.

    My thinking on it would be that if you want a BB with a higher fat score then you should be feeding lower protein meal. However, herein lies the problem with a BB - protein is necessary for growth. If you skimp on the protein for a BB, you could end up with a stumpy animal.


  • #4
    munkus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭munkus


    leg wax wrote: »
    i am not a expert,but bb are a lean breed and are going to be harder to put fat on, now all bb are different as in what their mother was and were they muscly , i killed a e grade bb heifer for the freezer the butcher said he never saw a heifer so lean,but on the other hand he never saw so much meat to come off a littlc carcase.

    Hi Leg,

    What did the meat taste like? Often hear that the continentals have little flavour in it or was it grand?


  • #5
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    starch and sugar is the only way to fatten an animal. 3 kilos a day for a good BB would only be an appetizer:D


  • #6
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    How many kilos a day of meal would it require? Would maize based meal be better than barley?


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  • #7
    leg wax
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    munkus wrote: »
    Hi Leg,

    What did the meat taste like? Often hear that the continentals have little flavour in it or was it grand?
    it was craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppppppppppppppp,no fat = no taste .:mad::mad:


  • #8
    munkus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭munkus


    leg wax wrote: »
    it was craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppppppppppppppp,no fat = no taste .:mad::mad:

    Took you a while to chew through all that :D


  • #9
    epfff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭epfff


    We always say here for a bull anything less than 10kgs is an insult anything more than 14kgs and youl go broke
    for heifers we half the measures


  • #10
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    Thanks for the replies, this was a bullock.


  • #11
    bob charles
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    restive wrote: »
    How many kilos a day of meal would it require? Would maize based meal be better than barley?

    it sure would. maize would be around 70% starch, higher this year around 72%, barley is around 60%


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