Dl2-Lmcaster Farming Saturday, July 12,1986
Angus
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - What
makes an ideal animal, in the show
ring or in the pasture? That
depends upon what they are being
bred for, said members of a special
“Judges” panel at the kickoff of
the Texas and Southwest Angus
Symposium June 27, after the
South Central Regional Junior
Angus Preview Show at the state
fairgrounds in Dallas.
Panel members were Dr. Bob
Kropp, Oklahoma State Univer
sity, Stillwater; John Maurer,
Granada Inc., Wheelock, Texas;
and Bill Wilson, Premier Inc.,
Cloverdale, Indiana. Moderator
was Dick Beck, Angus Hall of
Fame, Smithville, Missouri.
Importance of Frame Score
Size, or more specifically frame
score, came in for a good deal of
discussion. Kropp pointed out that
big animals are needed in order to
increase the average frame score
size in a herd. Frame score is 40
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percent to 50 percent heritable,
Kropp explained, and if you breed
a frame score 7 or 8 bull to frame 4
or 5 cows, you can expect to in
crease the average frame score
size of the offspring by .2 inch.
That means it takes 10 years to
increase the average size of your
cows by one inch, he said.
A steer can’t be over 53 or 54
inches at the hip and still finish at
1,200 pounds and grade high Good
or Choice, Kropp said. The im
portant thing about any beef cattle
is that they grow fast and ef
ficiently to 12 months of w and
produce a lean, USDA
grade carcass.
Kropp recommended Tfiat
breeders also focus on where their
product is going. The commercial
industry needs to produce cattle
that will yield 600 to 800 pound
carcasses, he said, so this means
that the steers must finish at
between 1,000 and 1,250 pounds and
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grade at least low Choice. There is
also a market for higher quality
beef as expressed in the growth of
the CAB (Certified Angus Beef)
program, Kropp said, plus a
demand for a much leaner
product.
Once a breeder has exceeded
frame score 7 in the cattle he
produces, it is time to concentrate
on other traits such as growth and
structural soundness, Kropp said.
Structural Soundness
John Maurer emphasized the
need for structural soundness, and
said that it is receiving much more
attention today. Starting from the
ground up Maurer said that cattle
need large symmetrical feet that are
free of cracks and corns.
The pasterns should have a 40
percent to 50 percent slope and the
center of the cannon bone should
come out of the center of the knee.
Some people want perfectly
straight feet, Maurer said, but he
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feels that a slight splay presents no
problem. The shoulder, he said,
should be long and sloping and well
tied in to the body. As cattle get big
we see more open fronted cattle
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In the rear, cattle need adequate
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should be straight from the hooks
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cattle from the junior show to
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cows in his herd seem to produce
cattle more like themselves.
“We are going to moderate
size,” Wilson said. “We will keep
the size we have but have to im
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