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Do you already have a buyer in mind? Are you selling them as heavy breds through a sale barn. Going to advertise and sell them that way? Sale barn, doesn't matter what they are bred back to. If you sell them off the farm Char, Angus, Hereford would all be snapped up in my opinion.

The Brahman half.

That isn't even what I am saying. I am talking about the 600 lb weaned calf. I am saying they are more expensive to raise out of pure English cattle than out of Brahman influenced cattle. Here is a study by Texas A&M University addressing many aspects of cattle raising, from forage efficiency...

I think ollie' might be able to help you with that bull. PM him.

Yeah, English cattle make better meat and bring better prices at say 600 lbs. But it cost more to bring an English blooded calf to that weight than in does to bring a calf to that weight with some ear.

Good question, I agree both parents are gentle, each in their own way. The only thing I can think of is that because they are such an extreme cross, million of years separate their common ancestor that you get something resembling a wild creature, basically wiping out thousands of years of...

Nothing wrong with buying older cows. We started our herd with what we called old dead people cows. They were acquired from dispersals and we figured the old cows were the ones that they had kept because they were good. Remember the wife of Mr. Ayers called my father-in-law asking what am I...

txag, I assume this statement applies to Bos Tarus cattle. I am sure you know that two red brahmans can produce a gray calf.

Here are what the calves looked like when we ran a hereford bull with our red brahman cows.

If you cross a F1 cow with an F1 bull you would get F2, which would not be consistent, the F2 animal could be anwhere between pure brahman in appearance and function to pure hereford in function and appearance. Not all Brahman cows cost that much, you should continue to look around. Buying...

Brahmans don't. 8)