—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28, 1965
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Bull Beef
Production Has
Good Future
The maxim that bull beef is
suitable only for canning or
making bologna needs to Be
i econsidered. according to ic
senicheis at Beltsville. Md
Not that beef from old bulls
is suitable for anything more
than that
But the quality of lean bull
beef fiom well-grown year
lings has been pioved and
has consumer approval in
a number of state and USDA
studies And when managed
like steers, the bulls have
been outstanding in giowth
<. nd economy of production
Piactically all bull beef
ot any age goes on the mai
ket today as piocessed beef
And although the maiket po
tential beyond this is not ful
1\ known, it must be le-exani
med on the basis of new in
loimation on bull feeding
Weanling bulls of the beef
bieecis giew significantly fas
tei and mote efficiently than
then twins laised as steeis—
in closely conti oiled feedlot
tnals conducted by ARS sci
entists E J Waiwick, R L
Hinei and R E Davis at
Beltsville Md The bulls also
showed up quite well in most
ca’cass chaiactenstics, al
though mting a little lowei
than the steeis in tenderness
and tastiness
In these tnals the bulls
gained an aveiage of 210
pounds and then steei twins
172 pounds pei day They
ate just a little ovei 1 percent
moie feed than the steeis but
pioduced 21 peicent moie
daily gam
The bulls leached the
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slaughter weight of 900 pounds
at 15 months of age, the steers
at about 17 months. Both
groups went on controlled
feeding when 6 months old.
The bulls required 7.97
pounds of feed, and the steers
950 pounds, to produce 1
pound of gain. This was a
saving in feed of 16 to 17 per
cent' Stated another way, the
bulls produced 1 19 pounds of
beef for every pound the
steers produced—on the same
amount of feed
The bulls were more eco
nomical of feedlot labor and
capital, too The steers were
in the feedlot for 11 months,
but the bulls reached slaugh
er weight in only 9 months—
thus saving some 18 percent
in feedlot labor and overhead
cost.
The bulls weie paiticulaily
efficient in putting on lean
beef, they had 10 percent
more lean in the ninth-to
eleventh nb section than the
steers had. And the bull cai
easses canned 38 peicent less
fat laigely waste ovei
the nb-eye aiea Howevei, the
bulls had about 9 3 peicent
moie bone in the rib section
The bulls also compaied
well with the steers in the
peicent of desnable cuts in
the carcass Their rib eye av
eraged neaily one-fifth larger
And the bulls’ forequaiteis
weie a little heavier, chiefly
due to a heavier chuck and
neck.
A taste panel rated bull
beef slightly less flavoiful and
tendei than steei meat, and
the Wainei-Bratzlei shear test
confumed the tenderness dif
feience The steer beef was
moderately maitoled; the bull
meat a little less so The bull
beef was also slightly darkei
The bull carcasses giaded
between high Good and low
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sider desirable. The satisfac
tory quality rating of the bull
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youth when slaughtered. The
meat had none of the objec
tionable flavor or other char
acteristics associated 'with
meat fiom old bulls
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obtained at the agricultural
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sas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ne
braska, Tennessee, and Wyom
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