Just found use for Corriente cows

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Jeanne - Simme Valley said:
I have embryos from my donor cows. I don't have "bottom end" cows and I always had a hard time putting embryos in any of my cows. But, I finally got it in my head it was no different than that great cow having a natural steer. I'm not putting any of her genetics back into the herd with steers....or embryos.
So any cow that is quality enough to be kept in your herd, is a good recip.
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Perhaps I misspoke, probably a lot of good cows are used for it in some herds, I have heard of people leasing their cows to be recips. I don’t l is the particulars of any of those kind of deals though.
I honestly have come to hate the concept of ET. I once considered getting into it but it never materialized and I’m not sorry now.
 
They don't appear to be short on milk from what I've seen. Rather, they appear to somehow produce adequate milk even if they're having a rough go of it. I think the early settlers used to milk criollo strain cattle, though I read an account in Cattle in the Cotton Fields that their milk isn't very good on a range diet. I should amend, however, and say that the account in question was recorded in the early 1800s in South Alabama where the range diet in question was almost all brush forage.
 
Corriente cows do good on plastic bags and foams cups that blow in from the highway. They graze, the browse, they eat pear cactus pads, and cactus pears, and mesquite pods, your straw hat if you drop it. They are also fidgety and flighty like if God one day said what would happen if I mix a goat, a deer, and a cow, and voila out come the Corriente. But one thing they've never been accused of is being poor mommas.
 
We need a strong marketing campaign promoting the benefits of Corriente beef: inexpensive, lean, chewy, a bit feral, but above all healthier than that melt in your mouth, cholesterol laden wagyu beef. I bet we can make it stick.
 
libertygarden said:
We need a strong marketing campaign promoting the benefits of Corriente beef: inexpensive, lean, chewy, a bit feral, but above all healthier than that melt in your mouth, cholesterol laden wagyu beef. I bet we can make it stick.
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Hey... and if you breed them to a black angus bull you can fool the buyers into giving you a premium!
 
libertygarden said:
We need a strong marketing campaign promoting the benefits of Corriente beef: inexpensive, lean, chewy, a bit feral, but above all healthier than that melt in your mouth, cholesterol laden wagyu beef. I bet we can make it stick.
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Already exists. Yoke S out of Iowa, they make a good stack beefing them after they lease them for rodeos. They finish them out on 4 lbs/head/day of soybean hull pellets in addition to grass.
 
My take away is that corrientes are the poorer man’s cattle to start out with. Haven’t really heard anyone say you can’t make money off of them.
 
It doesn't get more low maintenance than corriente. I don't know if if you know the meaning of the word, but corriente means mutt in Spanish.
 
libertygarden said:
It doesn't get more low maintenance than corriente. I don't know if if you know the meaning of the word, but corriente means mutt in Spanish.
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Well, I am a bit of a newb but I put my money where my mouth is. And I know a bit about cattle breeds. Here’s a picture of my Corriente heifer.
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Just put a mostly red angus genetics bull in with her. We’ll see how she does. If I make money, I might just go buy some more.
 
rocfarm said:
Well, I am a bit of a newb but I put my money where my mouth is. And I know a bit about cattle breeds. Here’s a picture of my Corriente heifer.
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Just put a mostly red angus genetics bull in with her. We’ll see how she does. If I make money, I might just go buy some more.
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Is she "PB" Corriente?
 
50/50Farms said:
Well, it means current/stream, but the colloquial usage in the Mexican ranching world is mutt.
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I like the metaphorical sound of current or steam. It implies they flow where they want to
50/50Farms said:
Is she "PB" Corriente?
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Is there such a thing? You’re about to set off a huge debate, there😂.

She cost me about $100 in trade, I figure (but I didn’t pay any cash). I think she got bottle fed for about 2 months. When she got to my place, she had bad grass belly and I figured she’d die over the winter, but she made it to spring green-up. Bad drought year, though. Put out a tub for them in March.

She weighs about 450 lbs at about 18 months old and I consider her a corriente because of looks and cost. I might have 250 in her now if I count the grass, tub, and cubes.
 

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