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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1760823" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I agree with your opinion. I spent this past winter putting together a herd of 1st and 2nd calf cows for a south GA client...Br x Hereford and Hereford x Brahmas, as well as purebred Brafords. We gave as much for the 1/2Br/1/2 Herf as we did purebred Brafords....sometimes a little less, but often a little more. Those cows and heifers of that cross sells as high as any other commercial cattle around here. As much or more as commercial Brangus. They have a reputation of being very good mommas. I got some from a breeder who kinda specializes in breeding 1/2 Brahma replacement heifers for folks, He will custom breed whatever you want. This year he had bred 50 Brahmas to a registered Black Hereford bull...homozygous black and homozygous polled. He AI's using sexed semen, and had contracted for I think 40, might have been 35, heifers at $1500 each, to be picked up at weaning in 6 mos. He breeds in May to have February calves, and this year he was gonna breed 75 of his Brahma cows that way for the same customer.</p><p></p><p>About 30 years ago, I had a neighbor that decided to develope his own bucking bulls..3 way crosses of LH, Brahma and Chiania. Once he had enough 3 way crosses, he started selling off some of the 2 ways. . I bought his 1/2 Brahma, 12 Chiania heifers and cows..big ole white cows that were calf-raising machines. Chiania are as heat, insect and parasite tolerant as Brahma, as wel as being cold tolerant. I bred the heifers to Angus, and a couple of years I got talked into breeding some to a polled Charolais bull. I developed a deep hatred of the pallet-headed cow-killer Char and Simmental in the early 70's, but OMG!! What a hell of a big ole pretty white calf those produced. Yes, they wouldn't bring as much per pound as the steers by the Angus bulls, but they'd weigh 150 lbs or so more at 6 mos than the Angus x steers, so brought as much or more money. Never fooled with those heifers..just sold them at weaning too. But another neighbor would buy them. who had registered Simmentals. Real simmentals, the red & white kind. He'd breed these heifers to a polled Hereford bull for their 1st calf, then the rest of the time he'd breed them to his SImm bulls. Both yielded big old yellow & white calves. I have no idea how these sold, though. </p><p>I tell ya, if I were young enough to get back into cow/calf, other than Corriente cows, I would probaly use that Brahma/ Chiania cross. LIke yiu said, they;d be out in the field at 2 PM eating like they were starving, on days like today. That seems to be a thing with some people that try to dis black cattle by saying they lay in the water all day. Al the ones I ever had did as well. Or course , they grazed from dusk, all through the night til noon the next day, but some people want cows to stand out in the sun on summer afternoons for some reason. Hell, I guess I am like a black cow, because in the summer, I am liable to sit in the pool, lake or creek myself from 11AM til after 5, and no one EVER called me skinny!! LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1760823, member: 40587"] I agree with your opinion. I spent this past winter putting together a herd of 1st and 2nd calf cows for a south GA client...Br x Hereford and Hereford x Brahmas, as well as purebred Brafords. We gave as much for the 1/2Br/1/2 Herf as we did purebred Brafords....sometimes a little less, but often a little more. Those cows and heifers of that cross sells as high as any other commercial cattle around here. As much or more as commercial Brangus. They have a reputation of being very good mommas. I got some from a breeder who kinda specializes in breeding 1/2 Brahma replacement heifers for folks, He will custom breed whatever you want. This year he had bred 50 Brahmas to a registered Black Hereford bull...homozygous black and homozygous polled. He AI's using sexed semen, and had contracted for I think 40, might have been 35, heifers at $1500 each, to be picked up at weaning in 6 mos. He breeds in May to have February calves, and this year he was gonna breed 75 of his Brahma cows that way for the same customer. About 30 years ago, I had a neighbor that decided to develope his own bucking bulls..3 way crosses of LH, Brahma and Chiania. Once he had enough 3 way crosses, he started selling off some of the 2 ways. . I bought his 1/2 Brahma, 12 Chiania heifers and cows..big ole white cows that were calf-raising machines. Chiania are as heat, insect and parasite tolerant as Brahma, as wel as being cold tolerant. I bred the heifers to Angus, and a couple of years I got talked into breeding some to a polled Charolais bull. I developed a deep hatred of the pallet-headed cow-killer Char and Simmental in the early 70's, but OMG!! What a hell of a big ole pretty white calf those produced. Yes, they wouldn't bring as much per pound as the steers by the Angus bulls, but they'd weigh 150 lbs or so more at 6 mos than the Angus x steers, so brought as much or more money. Never fooled with those heifers..just sold them at weaning too. But another neighbor would buy them. who had registered Simmentals. Real simmentals, the red & white kind. He'd breed these heifers to a polled Hereford bull for their 1st calf, then the rest of the time he'd breed them to his SImm bulls. Both yielded big old yellow & white calves. I have no idea how these sold, though. I tell ya, if I were young enough to get back into cow/calf, other than Corriente cows, I would probaly use that Brahma/ Chiania cross. LIke yiu said, they;d be out in the field at 2 PM eating like they were starving, on days like today. That seems to be a thing with some people that try to dis black cattle by saying they lay in the water all day. Al the ones I ever had did as well. Or course , they grazed from dusk, all through the night til noon the next day, but some people want cows to stand out in the sun on summer afternoons for some reason. Hell, I guess I am like a black cow, because in the summer, I am liable to sit in the pool, lake or creek myself from 11AM til after 5, and no one EVER called me skinny!! LOL [/QUOTE]
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