Time for new goals as bull finishing target is met

摘要

Farmers Weekly /Harper Adams Beef Focus Farmer Simon Frost has just hit one of his lifetime targets for his suckler herd, with a daily carcass gain (DCG) for his bull calves of 1kg from birth to slaughter. The 2011 crop of calves recorded a carcass weight of462kg at just 440 days (14.4 months) old - this is with 24kg removed to account for the calf birth carcass weight. With a kill-out of 59.8% (gut full), this equates to a live slaughter weight of 773kg and a daily live-weight gain of 1.66kg from birth - a phenomenal performance. And what makes this performance even more outstanding is that it includes bull calves from first-calved heifers, which are put to a very easy-calving Charolais bull.