Recent content by djwalker

I have been raising Red Brangus for 10 years. Love em to death. If you raise some good red bulls, you can sell them if you let people know about them.

On the registration papers from the international brangus breeders assoication, 1st generation means the cattle are 3/8 brahman and 5/8 brangus but were produced from breeding up to Brangus and the animal in question is the first generation of a defined brangus. This is not the same as a true...

I wouldn't flush a heifer. The results can be extremely variable in terms of embryo production and you also have no idea of the kind of calf she will raise. I would wait to see if she is really the kind of cow you want to invest all this money in (remember superovulation, breeding...

You could buy a head gate alone instead of the whole squeeze chute. That way you can still lock the cattle down to do whatever you want, but also save quite a bit of money, especially with only about 10-15 cows.

I have something to be said about Brangus cows. Love them, wouldn't trade them for any other breed. We raise Red Brangus and ours are as gentle as can be (almost too gentle). The root of our problems with cattle working came from two things, 1. Poor design on our pens confusing cattle, 2...

I just bought a heifer out of Lancer F442 and have one out of a Lancer bull that is a F442 son.

Genetic Resource International has a few beef bulls available. I don't know the exact price of the semen, but I thinksemen will cost about $50-100 more than a unsorted straw from the bull in question. More information on cost may be available from companies that have sorted sperm for sale...