Rarely do cattle get too fat on pasture unless there is something else going on. Horses, I've seen some starve on nothing but grass pasture and some get morbidly obese. Calving season has a lot to do with how much weight cows will carry and when they carry it. My fall calving cows always look thinner than my spring calving cows. I push the best hay to the fall calving cows first to try and keep them from losing body condition until they have rebred. Then I go with the lower quality hay for them and let the calves get the better stuff. Spring calving cows just get the common hay as they are back on pasture by the time its time to rebreed. I also wean off their calves sooner than the fall calvers.
Page 11 of the attached Univ of KY Extension publication shows a pretty good chart to estimate.
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