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<blockquote data-quote="3waycross" data-source="post: 924847" data-attributes="member: 6713"><p>If you keep crossing back and forth to Hereford and Angus you produce a set of steer calves that are always sellable and the heifers are a product that can be marketed for a preium. You maintain a uniform set of cows and don't mongrelize your cowherd and take away the possibility of putting the heifers into a cowherd</p></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px">EXCEPT THAT YOU GET <span style="color: #FF0000">RED</span>BALDIES AND THEY GET DOCKED SO YOU DO NOT GET A UNIFORM CALF CROP OR HERD AND THEY LOSE THE 3RD CROSS WHICH MAKES THE MOST HETEROSIS.</span></p><p></p><p>The way to get the good F1 Baldy is to breed herf to angus and then go outside for the 3rd cross. To me at least I would go HH/Homo Blk Homo polled GV and then terminal angus.</p><p></p><p>But since you already have the baldy heifers just find a real reliable heifer bull and turn em out with him. Who cares yer just lookin for a good quality live calf. After that play with some Continentals for terminal calves that really ring the bell.</p><p></p><p>No offense to Cow Pollinator but it's a little early to start culling. Wait until after the first calf crop and if something is real radical then maybe you cull it!</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="3waycross, post: 924847, member: 6713"] If you keep crossing back and forth to Hereford and Angus you produce a set of steer calves that are always sellable and the heifers are a product that can be marketed for a preium. You maintain a uniform set of cows and don't mongrelize your cowherd and take away the possibility of putting the heifers into a cowherd[/quote] [size=7]EXCEPT THAT YOU GET [color=#FF0000]RED[/color]BALDIES AND THEY GET DOCKED SO YOU DO NOT GET A UNIFORM CALF CROP OR HERD AND THEY LOSE THE 3RD CROSS WHICH MAKES THE MOST HETEROSIS.[/size] The way to get the good F1 Baldy is to breed herf to angus and then go outside for the 3rd cross. To me at least I would go HH/Homo Blk Homo polled GV and then terminal angus. But since you already have the baldy heifers just find a real reliable heifer bull and turn em out with him. Who cares yer just lookin for a good quality live calf. After that play with some Continentals for terminal calves that really ring the bell. No offense to Cow Pollinator but it's a little early to start culling. Wait until after the first calf crop and if something is real radical then maybe you cull it! [/QUOTE]
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