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Update on the Kudzu- Corriente herd since we sold it.
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<blockquote data-quote="50/50Farms" data-source="post: 1795122" data-attributes="member: 42731"><p>This is purely speculation, but the late 1870s and early to mid 1880s was when a lot of Texas herds went over the trail to MT, WY, etc and the winter of I believe 86 or 87 killed a lot of beeves up there, and I read somewhere that the crossbred stuff survived better. The only thing I would extrapolate from that is that the animals that died probably began life in TX or Mexico and ended up getting waylaid by such an extreme winter while the European and euro crossbred cattle were from a more similar environment and probably also had a higher natural percentage of fat cut in. This speculation has little to do with anything other than a study of the history of the time and the fact that a member of one of the hereford (I like studying breed history) foundations mentioned it in a podcast as one of the jumpstarts for hereford popularity on the northern range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="50/50Farms, post: 1795122, member: 42731"] This is purely speculation, but the late 1870s and early to mid 1880s was when a lot of Texas herds went over the trail to MT, WY, etc and the winter of I believe 86 or 87 killed a lot of beeves up there, and I read somewhere that the crossbred stuff survived better. The only thing I would extrapolate from that is that the animals that died probably began life in TX or Mexico and ended up getting waylaid by such an extreme winter while the European and euro crossbred cattle were from a more similar environment and probably also had a higher natural percentage of fat cut in. This speculation has little to do with anything other than a study of the history of the time and the fact that a member of one of the hereford (I like studying breed history) foundations mentioned it in a podcast as one of the jumpstarts for hereford popularity on the northern range. [/QUOTE]
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