The *correct* calculation of a feed:beef ratio

Dreck can't do it. He keeps using a waste percentage
that is based on the *entire* weight of the animal, and
that's WRONG: the weight gained in the feedlot is
virtually ALL edible beef; maybe 5% is not edible.

Every page Dreck has found indicates the animal eats
about 17 pounds of DRY MATTER per day, and gains about
3 pounds per day. Thus, the simple ratio of feed:beef
is about 17 / 3 = 5.7 pounds of feed to one pound of
gain, or 5.7:1.

If we want to assume that there is maybe 5% inedible
matter in the 3 pounds, then we need to divide 5.7 by
..95, giving an adjusted ratio of 6:1.

The feed:beef ratio is about 6:1, the figure that
virtually every web site on the topic gives (so long as
it isn't a site run by lying "vegan" hysterics.)

Derek wrote:
> "Jonathan Ball" <jonball.TakeThisOut@whitehouse.not> wrote in message news:3F143F07.5060801@whitehouse.not...
>
>>Dreck can't do it. He keeps using a waste percentage
>>that is based on the *entire* weight of the animal, and
>>that's WRONG: the weight gained in the feedlot is
>>virtually ALL edible beef; maybe 5% is not edible.
>>
>
> Wrong. According to Ohio State University:

[snip wrong stuff]

That has nothing to do with a feed:beef ratio.

>
>>Every page Dreck has found indicates the animal eats
>>about 17 pounds of DRY MATTER per day, and gains about
>>3 pounds per day.
>
>
> Wrong. According to USDA figures:
> An 800-pound, medium-frame steer calf will eat
> about 16.8 pounds of dry matter a day of a
> high-concentrate ration. He will gain about 3.0
> pounds a day with daily nutrients in his feed at
> the level shown here.

Right, Dreckweed: 16.8 pounds, not 25.anything.