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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1654151" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I agree. I delivered a Brangus bull t a farm yesterday. It was registered and tested homozygous for black. when I got to the place, I remembered it from way back in the 70's, when they bred registered Charolais. Now, they have a herd of about 40 or 50 pure Charolais,(they no longer fool with keeping a registered herd) that they are breeding to two registered red angus. They had been calving in October and November, and these calves are all a solid, almost blonde....I guess you'd call them reddish-blonde.. that were as finely built as any I have seen. There were about 20 cows like this.. as big as the Charolais, with solid black calves by their sides. Some had a little ear to them. The man told me that they were also red-Angus x Charolais, that he had kept and raised. That was why he had borrowed the Brangus bull from my clients: He breeds the 1st calf heifers to a Brangus, then the rest of the years, he breeds these cows to a homozygous black Simmental bull. I asked him did he do ok selling those red-Angus x Charolais steers, and he said he got docked a little, but not as bad as he used to get docked on the smokies when he used black Angus bulls. He said they bring about .20-.25 on average less than those blacks steers out of his red Angus X Charolais cows, but that he does sell a few of his red Angus x Char steers every year to some 4H and FFA kids to show, as well as some of the heifers and steers out of the red angus X Charolais cows and the black Simmental bull. So, I see your point, as well as others like KY Hills , about the quality of the Red Angus. I looked at his 2 bulls, and they are as well put-together as any black angus bull I have seen, and actually liked their size and conformation better than the black Simmental bull. And those blonde calves and cows...WOW! He doesn't keep any of these black heifers because he has them all sold before they are weaned. And, like you said, he gets as much for them as he would have from black mommas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1654151, member: 40587"] I agree. I delivered a Brangus bull t a farm yesterday. It was registered and tested homozygous for black. when I got to the place, I remembered it from way back in the 70's, when they bred registered Charolais. Now, they have a herd of about 40 or 50 pure Charolais,(they no longer fool with keeping a registered herd) that they are breeding to two registered red angus. They had been calving in October and November, and these calves are all a solid, almost blonde....I guess you'd call them reddish-blonde.. that were as finely built as any I have seen. There were about 20 cows like this.. as big as the Charolais, with solid black calves by their sides. Some had a little ear to them. The man told me that they were also red-Angus x Charolais, that he had kept and raised. That was why he had borrowed the Brangus bull from my clients: He breeds the 1st calf heifers to a Brangus, then the rest of the years, he breeds these cows to a homozygous black Simmental bull. I asked him did he do ok selling those red-Angus x Charolais steers, and he said he got docked a little, but not as bad as he used to get docked on the smokies when he used black Angus bulls. He said they bring about .20-.25 on average less than those blacks steers out of his red Angus X Charolais cows, but that he does sell a few of his red Angus x Char steers every year to some 4H and FFA kids to show, as well as some of the heifers and steers out of the red angus X Charolais cows and the black Simmental bull. So, I see your point, as well as others like KY Hills , about the quality of the Red Angus. I looked at his 2 bulls, and they are as well put-together as any black angus bull I have seen, and actually liked their size and conformation better than the black Simmental bull. And those blonde calves and cows...WOW! He doesn't keep any of these black heifers because he has them all sold before they are weaned. And, like you said, he gets as much for them as he would have from black mommas. [/QUOTE]
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