Ky hills
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Exactly, a mixed herd of cows with crossbred bull especially one with white on it is just making for a Christmas tree crop of calves and not the desired uniformity.These back Herefords are a niche market. It's a novelty for any one who will bite. There are much better options in most all circumstances. The worse thing you can do is take "sale barn cows" or cows of mixed background and put a crossbred black hereford bull on them.
What is being missed here is these F1 baldies are so popular for the benefits that come with a first cross, F1. They are also a key ingredient of a 3 way cross.
When you just start breeding them back and forth with in each other you are losing that hybrid vigor and performance.
Using a black hereford to make baldies is like using urine to make lemonade.![]()
Yes that first F1 cross of Angus and Hereford is hard to beat and hard to replicate the benefits of an F1 unless you take it to a 3 way cross. F1 BWF cows bred to Charolais, Simmental, or Limousin.
To change it up to work better in the deep south, F1 Hereford X Brahman cows with and Angus bull.