Some Hereford Photos For You

[Isomade]

Nice

[Julian]

I was missing your pictures. Thanks for posting more.

[Old_man_emu]

What does that bull weigh?
They are neat looking cattle!
They are a lot smaller looking than the herfs here, are they representitive of the general direction of the breed where you are, or do you prefer more moderate type cattle?

[jhambley]

They are a lot smaller looking than the herfs here, are they representitive of the general direction of the breed where you are, or do you prefer more moderate type cattle?

I would say these cattle are not a good representation of the Hereford cattle in the States. I'm not sure what that young bull weighs but my polled bull weighs 1850+. Most of my cows weigh right around 1100 pounds. I've concentrated on old line Hereford genetics. Most all of my horned cows trace back to Brookview Farms in Kentucky. Here are some photos of the Brookview cattle in the 50s. My cows look a look like these.

[jhambley]

Old_man_emu,

Here is a photo of my polled bull that sired those calves.

[WORANCH]

The best thing about your Herefords are they LOOK like herefords and not Fleckvieh Simmentals ..

[Craig]

How old are these heifers?

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Really nice - moderate, deep, little tanks!

[jhambley]

How old are these heifers?

Yellow tags are Spring 2011 heifers. Green tags are Fall 2010 heifers.

[vontrapp1]

Jerry,

Those heifers look great. They are developing nicely I believe you posted pictures of them a few months back so they are doing well.

I was curious if you intend to breed back and expand the BrookviewXDeewall animals you may have. Or if you intend to just concentrate on the BrookviewXHodge, or HodgeXHodge breeding? I ask because you haven't posted many pictures of the BrookviewXDeewall line you were working on. Except for the 6V bull which I assume is a DeewallXBrookview product. Which is a great looking bull.

Best Regards,
DG

[Gale Seddon]

What beautiful, solid animals! Especially like seeing the older photos. Thanks for putting these up!

[jhambley]

Darren,

Yes, the 6V bull is out of the 2K41 Brookview cow and sired by the Deewall bred D Advance 630 bull we called Wally. Wally has been in Oklahoma since last Easter at Thomas Green's place in Coweta. Wally was only used on three Brookview cows one year before the Hodge bull was acquired. He made two good sons for us. I retained the 6V bull and sold the other bull commercially as I felt he was a bit short coupled. He did sire one daughter out of what I considered our worst Brookview cow (she's since been culled) that was just an average calf that sold at the sale barn.

As to your questions concerning my breeding plans, they are still being formed I have purchased another bull (Boom Boom) from Bill Hathcock that I'll be using on some of the cows. He is a paternal half brother to the Hodge bull. He'll be arriving in late Spring and I'll make my pairings with Boom Boom and 6V then.

[jhambley]

Thanks for everyone's comments.

JH