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<blockquote data-quote="Jobulls" data-source="post: 1416606" data-attributes="member: 20026"><p>Some of our buyers like a very traditional Hereford look. Some of our buyers like a lot of pigment on the face. Pigment is a big deal out here in the west and we are trying to breed that on the cattle. Because of this we do get some mottle face calves. They still sell and sometimes faster than the ones with feathered necks. </p><p></p><p>My family has been selling Line 1 Herefords for over 40 years. I decided 10 years ago to take them black and polled. We still get a few horns from our foundation genetics, but some of our buyers like the horns. There are less and less each year. I think we had 5 bulls with horns out of the crop. </p><p></p><p>We are working towards the homozygous black, but I refuse to just select for color. You will notice that we are using red bulls still A.I. This creates heterozygous black calves, but we are breeding for quality. The color will come. </p><p></p><p>Thanks again for looking at our site.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jobulls, post: 1416606, member: 20026"] Some of our buyers like a very traditional Hereford look. Some of our buyers like a lot of pigment on the face. Pigment is a big deal out here in the west and we are trying to breed that on the cattle. Because of this we do get some mottle face calves. They still sell and sometimes faster than the ones with feathered necks. My family has been selling Line 1 Herefords for over 40 years. I decided 10 years ago to take them black and polled. We still get a few horns from our foundation genetics, but some of our buyers like the horns. There are less and less each year. I think we had 5 bulls with horns out of the crop. We are working towards the homozygous black, but I refuse to just select for color. You will notice that we are using red bulls still A.I. This creates heterozygous black calves, but we are breeding for quality. The color will come. Thanks again for looking at our site. [/QUOTE]
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