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<blockquote data-quote="BC" data-source="post: 1139274" data-attributes="member: 67"><p>Cloud9, I don't have any examples, but I have seen many. When I lived in Brenham, TX years ago, Mayfair Ranch used Santa Gertrudis bulls over F1 Brahman X Herefords and F1 Brahman x Angus females. Jim Theeck was manager of Mayfair and he told me that using the Gert bull on the crossbred cow let him raise a female that was as close to a half blood as you could get (about 7/16 Brahman influence). Mayfair Ranch was a big producer of replacement females from the late 1970's to the early 1990's, both F1 Brahman crosses and Santa Gertrudis crosses. The Gert cross heifers had to be branded at weaning time because a large percentage of them looked the part of the F1's.</p><p></p><p>BrangusCowGirl wrote I have friends that question me on this regularly. I wean at 7 to 8 months of age unless grass is short. My philosophy is why should that cow only work for half a year especially if I have grass. Plans are to wean in a week or two as I have a couple of December purebred Gert heifers going to kids for show heifers and I was waiting on them to get big enough to brand, but not so big that they cannot handle them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BC, post: 1139274, member: 67"] Cloud9, I don't have any examples, but I have seen many. When I lived in Brenham, TX years ago, Mayfair Ranch used Santa Gertrudis bulls over F1 Brahman X Herefords and F1 Brahman x Angus females. Jim Theeck was manager of Mayfair and he told me that using the Gert bull on the crossbred cow let him raise a female that was as close to a half blood as you could get (about 7/16 Brahman influence). Mayfair Ranch was a big producer of replacement females from the late 1970's to the early 1990's, both F1 Brahman crosses and Santa Gertrudis crosses. The Gert cross heifers had to be branded at weaning time because a large percentage of them looked the part of the F1's. BrangusCowGirl wrote I have friends that question me on this regularly. I wean at 7 to 8 months of age unless grass is short. My philosophy is why should that cow only work for half a year especially if I have grass. Plans are to wean in a week or two as I have a couple of December purebred Gert heifers going to kids for show heifers and I was waiting on them to get big enough to brand, but not so big that they cannot handle them. [/QUOTE]
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