southoftheriver
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Not to stir up any negative breed bashing or anything, (I'll leave that to the other posts ), but with all the talk about Black on here I thought this might be a good time to get some feedback.
I'm just getting my feet wet with the whole cattle thing. I just help out my neighbors once in a while and I am starting to build a small herd with 3 angus cow/calf pairs and plan to sell and buy back more cow/calf pairs in the future until I reach about 20-30 head. I do'nt want to borrow money. I've been paying cash for everything.
Anyways I am super partial to polled herefords. My family used to raise them from the 50's to about 2000. I would love to have a herd of them but around here in Kansas it seems like black just does better no matter how you look at it and i'm in it to make money. Right now I will breed back my angus cows to a neighbor's angus bull. When my herd gets bigger I want to change some things. One thing I'd like to do is gradually cross breed w/ a hereford bull to get some baldies. Now I've always heard that this cross will result in throwing around 25% red/white faced? is that right? Well my question is is this a good idea? I've heard cattle sell better in a uniform color. One thing i've been researching is the Black Hereford breed. I guess there's actually a registered breed now called the ABHA. Anyone familiar? Well I was thinking when I get ready to put more money into my operation why not get a registered Black Hereford bull and breed my black cows and they say 100% of the time you will have black baldies. Now this will also work on baldie cows too right? I'm thinking what a great way to have the both of best worlds - hereford and angus traits with 100 of the calves being black but still resembling herefords. Anyways just wanted to know what everyone thought or if anyone has heard of this breed or breeding program.
I'm just getting my feet wet with the whole cattle thing. I just help out my neighbors once in a while and I am starting to build a small herd with 3 angus cow/calf pairs and plan to sell and buy back more cow/calf pairs in the future until I reach about 20-30 head. I do'nt want to borrow money. I've been paying cash for everything.
Anyways I am super partial to polled herefords. My family used to raise them from the 50's to about 2000. I would love to have a herd of them but around here in Kansas it seems like black just does better no matter how you look at it and i'm in it to make money. Right now I will breed back my angus cows to a neighbor's angus bull. When my herd gets bigger I want to change some things. One thing I'd like to do is gradually cross breed w/ a hereford bull to get some baldies. Now I've always heard that this cross will result in throwing around 25% red/white faced? is that right? Well my question is is this a good idea? I've heard cattle sell better in a uniform color. One thing i've been researching is the Black Hereford breed. I guess there's actually a registered breed now called the ABHA. Anyone familiar? Well I was thinking when I get ready to put more money into my operation why not get a registered Black Hereford bull and breed my black cows and they say 100% of the time you will have black baldies. Now this will also work on baldie cows too right? I'm thinking what a great way to have the both of best worlds - hereford and angus traits with 100 of the calves being black but still resembling herefords. Anyways just wanted to know what everyone thought or if anyone has heard of this breed or breeding program.