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I've been looking into the brangus more and more but I have been reading about poor temperaments and fence jumping? Is this what you guys have been experiencing with the breed? Our cows right now are mostly angus crosses, very gentle and come running up to us when they see us coming (in hopes...

Does anyone know about how long an average brangus cow will live? After doing a forum search I found one guy that said his brangus live until about 20 years but it that the norm? Seems kinda high compared to most other breeds.

Hey Backbone Ranch, thanks for your response. How exactly are you using the internet to market your beef? Are you selling your beef from your website? If so, how are you getting people to go to your website? Are you using Google adwords, SEO marketing, passing out biz cards to get people to...

One day I would like to get into selling directly to the consumer but haven't had the time to research what all is involved yet and how to market it. But I know there are some ranchers here in AZ that sell beef on their websites and many of them say "sold out for the season" so they must be...

How do the Piedmontese compare to brangus in rough country? Our pasture is high desert and if we don't get much rain our cattle have to travel long distances to find feed.

Rafter S, thanks for the response. Are you using registered brangus or commercial brangus? How many horned calves are you getting? Approximately how many of each color combo are you getting from the hereford bull?

Very true, unfortunately, some of us work the day of the sale.

I've never really considered scurs. I've always just considered them as polled. Do they got docked at the sale barn like horned cattle do? Perhaps there is another variable here that I have never even payed attention to

Also, does anyone know what the typical calving rate is for brangus? We have built our angus herd up to a 85-87% calving rate each year. I have no idea what to expect with the brangus. A friend of mine runs brangus and says he only gets about 65% but he looses a lot of calves to lions each...

It seems like there is some conflicting information. So... if we had a horned hereford bull and registered brangus cows we would get all polled black baldie calves with little ear?

When using a horned hereford bull on brangus, are the calves going to polled (from the brangus) or horned (from the hereford) or a combination of both?

Say we were to us a hereford bull on brangus cows: What percentage of calves would be red w/ white face, straight black and black w/ white face? I've heard you can get up to 40% red w/ white face calves using a hereford bull? Does anyone have any first hand experience with this?

I think the breeds that we are most interested in right now for our place is putting a hereford bull on brangus cows. Anybody done this cross? What were the pros/cons with your experience? Did you have any calving problems with these?

I haven't heard much about murray grey, do they sell well? do you sell at the auctions or privately?

We also have a small herd of Charolais. There are several things we really like about them: very hardy for our high desert climate and they're willing to travel a long way for feed/water. We also have never had any calving problems with the Charolais (which I thought we would have). The...

Have you had any calving problems with the brangus?

I would like to hear from other ranchers as to why you are using a particular breed of cattle. We have mostly angus and angus cross and are considering introducing another breed to gain some hybrid vigor with our calves. We are in a northern AZ high desert ranch with lots of water and good feed...