Posted by pburchett on January 01, 2010 at 18:52:17 from (75.117.161.190):
I recently took 2 beautiful Black Angus/Limousine steers to slaughter. I received them as young bulls at about 4 1/2 months old, castrated them at 9 months and slaughtered them at about 17 months old. They were pasture grazed and finished off with free choice of pasture, hay and grain. I have no clue as to their live weight, but their carcass weights were 600 lbs and 585 lbs and I brought home approximately 830 pounds of meat. Does this sound correct for the take home weight?
If carcass weight to take home weight is supposed to be approximately 75%. I am close to that at 70% of the carcass weight.
If live weight is approximately 62% of carcass weight the steers would have only weighed about 950lbs each. This seems low to me as I expected each one to weight about 1400 lbs. What should these 17 month old Black Angus/Limousine steers weigh on the hoof?
I was expecting more take home meat, but since I do not have any prior experience and did not know the live weight I can only guess to whether or not this is within a reasonable range for this type of breed. Did I loose a lot of the live weight due to big bone structure, hide & internals, large head and feet, or did some of my meat wind up in the retail case out front for other customers?
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