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<blockquote data-quote="hurleyjd" data-source="post: 647827" data-attributes="member: 4674"><p>The reason: Several years ago I read a report form some experiment station in Arkansas and they said that the Jersey Angus cross when bred back to a beef bull had the best weaning weights of any of the crosses in the test. I have not been able to find the results of the test. I am not trying to reinvent the wheel only trying for the first F1 cross for some mother cows, I am to darn old to invent another breed. The cross calves are actual growing faster than the pure bred angus. I think the ability of a mother cow to give milk influnces the weaning weight more than the breed. I have raised some pretty heavy crossbred calves from some straight bred Jersey cows. They brought as much in the sale as any of the other calves. My hope is that the heifer offspring will be able to do this. Now you guys may have better angus than I have. I know in years past when we run a diary we would steer some Jersey calves and they were our beef. Not as much fat but just about right for us. Now I may not be a great judge of steak like some of you seem ro refer but that is the way it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hurleyjd, post: 647827, member: 4674"] The reason: Several years ago I read a report form some experiment station in Arkansas and they said that the Jersey Angus cross when bred back to a beef bull had the best weaning weights of any of the crosses in the test. I have not been able to find the results of the test. I am not trying to reinvent the wheel only trying for the first F1 cross for some mother cows, I am to darn old to invent another breed. The cross calves are actual growing faster than the pure bred angus. I think the ability of a mother cow to give milk influnces the weaning weight more than the breed. I have raised some pretty heavy crossbred calves from some straight bred Jersey cows. They brought as much in the sale as any of the other calves. My hope is that the heifer offspring will be able to do this. Now you guys may have better angus than I have. I know in years past when we run a diary we would steer some Jersey calves and they were our beef. Not as much fat but just about right for us. Now I may not be a great judge of steak like some of you seem ro refer but that is the way it is. [/QUOTE]
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