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Always had a little love for the Simms 😉. Grew up around Simms/Chars/Herfs as kid, so it's come full circle. No love whatsoever for the Chars, but if they net me an extra $5-10k a year, it helps pay the mortgage on the next round of farm land acquisitions.

The last place a guy wants his cattle is in the shade of trees all day. Cattle don't gain much weight where the grass don't grow. I've naturally eliminated all of the dark red Hereford cows from the herd for this reason; they were the first to run for shade on a hot day and last ones to leave.

Yep. White and buckskin cattle bring the premiums in Canada. No one in North America pays more for feeder cattle than the Amish and Mennonite farmers in Southern Ontario with 50-100 head feedlots. As was told to myself and others by a very well known auctioneer/order buyer, those guys have...

Nah, the old guy is a gentle giant. He likes an actual challenge. He'd love to take on the Simm that is same age. But I keep them separated for that reason.

My final plan once I reached 100 cows and had a small F1 cowherd component was to introduce either Angus or Charolais for the terminal cross. Being that Char cross cattle are an easy 10-20 cents over blacks here, it's a simple decision. Picked this guy up yesterday and will be covering my...

Sure am glad we got the black baldy prices at the time. Dad kept one once because he thought he would make big money keeping it to yearling. Went from a fancy 6-7 month old steer to a horse at 13 months and got less than he would have gotten as a calf. I still see them pay good money for them...

Simple. Hereford × Holstein guarantees a black baldy calf. Sell it at 6 months of age and few buyers can tell the difference versus Hereford/Angus baldy. By 10 months though, the dairy characteristics start coming through. Sold them like that through 80s and 90s when family still had...

I went back about 10 generations and didn't see anything real suspicious.

Commercial producers don't like the feather because the order buyers dock feathernecks as being pure Hereford. Lack of a featherneck loosely indicates crossbred to order buyers, and commands a higher price. Big push in the Polled Herefords for many years to completely eliminate featherneck...

You can find goggle eyes on cows in old time Hereford breed show photos from 100-120 years ago. Just like all Herefords weren't belt buckle size in the 1950's. And that the lineback and freckle face are original Hereford traits from the first Hereford cows - Pigeon and Motley. The trait that...

Post the registration number and can probably track down the Simmie in the pedigree. Likely a few generations back and not showing on the paper certificate.

The only long-haired breed worth a speck of coon-shyt is Welsh Black, and you have to go for the serious performance breeders. The rest have abysmal growth rates. There was a fella on here once from SK that had F1 HHxWB and they were dandies. Problem was the extra hair on the steers. But they...

Save the money on the chili for the extra toilet paper expense. In fact, avoid chili altogether to help ration the toilet paper. Focus on cheese.

I am just as bad in person. Maybe worse. Although you missed the early days here when a couple of long-since vacated posters would regularly critique my 4 legger photos. There certainly was no holding back on their part.

I am not impressed. Looking at their age, their pedigree, their actual weight numbers and the big fact they were ET calves with a good crossbred cow raising them, they are disappointing. Can't compare the Rocky bull as that was all MJT breeding in the first place. Lohner just calved out the...

Neighbor runs them because of misplaced nostalgia as a kid. They really are dual purpose. Cows milk far too much, ligaments and teats go right to hell. Calves and yearlings are tall and skinny. He gets hammered on the price so hard it makes my Herefords look like gold nuggets. But he has...

I would buy both cheap, feed and send on their way. Certainly nothing I would consider breeding.

There is a big difference between what you want in terms of marketing and in terms of breed purity. They are basically polar opposites of each other. Commercial guys want the equivalent of a red baldy as a marketable Hereford calf - lots of red, very little white.

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I think my neighbor's fullblood Simmental steers were in the $1500-1550 range, here, for around 750 lbers. He always sets the top end of the market price here. Some feeders hate them Simmentals and some really, really love them.