WildRoseBeef
Range nerd & bovine enthusiast
I had always thought that rate of maturity is correlated with age of puberty and/or length of gestation. It turns out this is not the case! Rate of maturity, which is the time when an animal starts to deposit fat instead of muscle, has nothing to do with nor has any affect on when a heifer or bull will reach puberty or sexual maturity nor with length of gestation.