Many people maintain a garden in the summer and enjoy eating the bounty of their homegrown produce
Many people maintain a garden in the summer and enjoy eating the bounty of their homegrown produce. Similarly, cattle producers raise freezer beef for themselves and to share with family and friends. In the context of raising a steer, finishing means when the steer is reaching physiologic maturity, so they have adequate fat cover on them and they are also depositing intramuscular fat.
A finished steer will have about one-half inch of backfat over the rib, and their body condition score will be around eight or nine. With a starting weight of 850 pounds and a goal end weight of around 1,350 pounds, the steer will need to gain about 500 pounds in approximately 150 days. This marks
