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Thank you both for your input. I think I will stick with Angus Valley next year and hope for that heifer.

Curious to know if anyone has had experience with this red Angus bull from Genex. Red Angus EPDs aren't that informative. What I really want to know is if his daughters have decent udder attachments and small to medium teat sizes with sufficient milk? Also, any comment on his hindquarters...

Thanks for your replies. The calves do seem immune for the first few weeks, but I didn't want to zap them hard enough to do damage. Sad about that terrier, tho.

Fitz wrote: "If you have electricity available I'd go that route. I run a parmak Range Master with 12.5 joules and have a zareba with 6 joules. " Do you have any problems with keeping calves behind a wire with 6 joules? I ordered a Zareba AC low impedence 100 miler with a 6 joule output over...

Just for reference, the Tarentaise steer and his momma were rejoined when I put everyone in the winter paddock by the barn. They were apart from early September to late November, and she had dried off sufficiently so that he does not try to nurse her any longer. However, in mid-October they...

Nice young bulls, SPH! This is the first polled Hereford cow I've owned, although I have been an admirer for years. I bought her from Fauquier Farm here in Virginia, and she has Rib Eye in her sire line. After owning several Tarentaise she has been quite a change - she is very laid back and...

I use Genex, as I have a reliable rep. For the Tarentaise I am using this bull as I need something to sell: MOHNEN LONG DISTANCE 1639 1AN01202 - 16455862 For the Polled Hereford heifer, I will use this one for her first calf. I hope he puts a better rear end on her calves: TH 122 71I...

Thanks, Chuckie. I spent a lot of years with horses and hosted warmblood/sporthorse inspections so I understand the importance of structure, but my eye hasn't been developed for cow conformation. I am going to print this out and review. Michael

Thanks, Dun, I always appreciate your opinion. The end of the grazing season/beginning of round bale season begins Thanksgiving weekend for me, so he should be more than safe when I have to put him back with his mom. Michael

I weaned the Tarentaise steer on Sunday at about 6 1/2 months. He is locked in a stall with his buddy the Donk next door, and momma can come up periodically so they may touch noses. But now momma is getting more interested in the grass in the front pasture and calls less frequently. I have a...

Thank you for your responses, and I'm relieved that it is unlikely that she will have problem deliveries going forward. She is smaller than the other Tarentaise cows I have owned, and even then I usually select black angus heifer bulls for breeding. I guess in retrospect it wasn't such a hard...

"KER-MON, COES" and they follow me anywhere. But usually they know it means that I'm putting them on fresh grass. ;)

I had bought a Tarentaise heifer last year that is of smaller frame. She has very good breeding, and comes from a long line of cows with no calving issues. She was bred to a Tarentaise bull that was a rather large and very well muscled. She calved in February (at least 22 months old), and for...

Thank you for all of the responses and opinions, and yes, I was able to glean useful information from the last 3 pages! :) The best "documented" proof I have for pricing is a USDA Feeder Cattle sale report in my area from April 16th. For a 1200 lb. feeder steer, the price was 130.00 per cwt...

I have raised calves for several years, but this is the first time I've actually raised a beef with the intention of slaughtering it for personal use. It is a Hereford/Tarentaise steer that will be about 20 months old and 1,200 lb. when I send him to the processor. I am splitting the beef...

ALACOWMAN, I hope you didn't think I was pi$$ed off - not at all. There are very diverse people on this board, and I've learned a lot here. I find most of your posts to be reliable. I don't have a huge spread, and (thankfully) I don't have to make a living from raising cows, but I was just...

I have a little 5 acre place in Northern Virginia which I bought to breed a few sport horses after I divorced in 2003. I had hosted German Warmblood horse inspections and sport horse evaluations for fun. Then I developed rheumatoid arthritis and figured out quickly that I wouldn't be putting...

All of that effort and he didn't use a BELTED Galloway? ;)

I typically breed my Tarentaise to small birthweight black angus bulls for a terminal F1 cross -- they generally sell well at the auction barn, although a local guy liked my two 2011 heifers so much he bought both of their black hides for his commercial herd (I agree with MO_cows that if you...

My 2007 Tarentaise cow was 1,330 lb. on the vet scale over the summer and the 2009 Tarentaise cow was 1,155 lb. They consistently give me 550 lb. six month old weaned calves sired by black angus. I have a little five acre place and I do very well squeezing rotational grazing and efficiencies...