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NS Canada | 0.8 may sound like a small figure when just read as a simple number, but when related to the 1.5-1.9 avg, you're talking about a 40-50% increase. Whether they were bred heifers or feeders, both can be explained in regards to their own merits. If it were feeders they gained an extra 100lbs - on a calf at a time where you may only be making 100/ hd profit this fall, that extra 100 lbs is effectively doubling your profit (minus whatever you determine the forage/acres to cost).
On a bred heifer you are getting her closer to her mature weight quicker. She'll be bigger at calving and calving easier because of that quite likely, and if sold as a bred heifer whether by description or weight, her larger size will most likely result in more profit as well.
That 2.7 isn't going to be much of a negative for her at that stage, as 100 lbs is basically 5 weeks, and she's not going to maintain that gain for months on end. I'm assuming they'll be pulled back now going into winter, and that extra will do them fine.
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How to give accurate value of an extra .8 lbs of gain/day
