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Am. Soc. Anim. Prod. 1933:63-64
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Baby Beef and What it Means to the Laity

E. S. Good

Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

What constitutes "Baby Beef?" The answer to this question is well understood by the animal husbandman and the packer but not so by the laity. There is considerable confusion nowadays as to that answer. The term is being too loosely used on the markets and elsewhere as a term that fits all young beef animals regardless of age, size and condition. The definition of baby beef some thirty years ago was "a well bred, fat young beef animal, weighing from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds and from 18 to 24 months old." Twenty years ago baby beef was defined as a young, well bred, fat animal, weighing from 800 to 1,100 pounds and from 12 to 20 months of age. The present definition of baby beef is that of a choice to prime fat steer or heifer, weighing between 700 and 1,000 pounds and between 12 and 18 months of age.






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