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Very, Very few holsteins can meet the ribeye, carcass weight, and muscling requirements of CAB.

The other CAB requirements would keep out "old black cows". You should read them.

We've done it here. After the first few hit the ground, we quit checking on them. Zero calving problems. These were jersey bulls on Angus and Hereford heifers. The calves weren't bad at all. A feeder said he could consistently get 60% choice from angus/jersey calves, and they can qualify...

I think black herefords have to be at least 7/8 hereford - so not much heterosis there. The idea was to get a homozygous black hereford cross to mate with other breeds and get black calves. This was done to compete with angus. To get a 7/8 hereford that was homozygous black, they had to...

Does is make as much difference if you sell 50 or more at a time as one lot to match the price with the dam?

TT, In my part of the world, if the calves are branded and castrated, they have probably been given at least one round of shots - whether they have an ear tag or not. Any other rounds of shots / weaning / preconditioning are stated at the sale.

I don't tag the calves. Don't care which sire goes with which calf. Only care which dam if the calf is a dink.

I think what you are talking about are Irish Blacks. They are not angus. Try google.

Not all bovids are bovines, but all bovines are bovids.

I have some braunvieh cows. The angus/braunvieh calves are always the biggest and best in the herd. (vs. angus/angus)

Ha! More PhD’s per capita in this county then anywhere in the nation. We're supposedly "enlightened".... I try to keep to the farm as much as possible. :cowboy: The most PHD's per capita in the USA is Los Alamos County, New Mexico.

That's exactly what we do - 2 equal size herds (on a average year). The maternal herd has our best cows with bulls from one angus line (all half brothers). The terminal herd has the growthiest bulls we can afford. When all the cows in the terminal herd have been replaced with heifers from the...

You won't need to worry about the birthweights with longhorn cows. There are good reasons to start with longhorn cows. One is the cost per cow initial investment. Another is they are easy keepers. Also agree the only unmarketable calf is a dead calf.

It might have seemed like a good gamble at the time because of the rarety to the breed in the US at the time.