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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1515441" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>I also agree that there are good and not so good cattle traits in all breeds. The Angus breed as a whole is vast and contains an extremely wide range of type and kind as well as management. My experiences with them has no doubt been different than the majority of folks. I see many herds of them and sometimes I literally marvel at them. Again no doubt that many herds are likely having success with them, but my experience with registered Angus has been disappointing. Have had a hard time finding decent dispositions, and then in recent years feet/leg structure and fertility have also been problematic. I have had to cull several young cows for not calving regularly. Our Hereford and crossbred cows as whole calve more consistently in comparison. I have had better results with Angus bulls than cows, but still have to be very selective. I feel that commercial Angus are more reliable than the registered females that I have had as many were bought through regional consignment sales as heifers, I figure they were likely not the picks of the litter,</p><p>Our recent trend towards Herefords has been a bit more successful, they are as a whole calmer and easier to work with. They seem to breed back more regular and wean off bigger calves than the Angus cows. </p><p>Have calved out several Hereford over the last few years, and haven't had any issues with prolapse. That being said 30 years ago I had some Charolais cows that were bred up from Herefords and we had quite a few prolapses, with that group of cows and their descendants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1515441, member: 24816"] I also agree that there are good and not so good cattle traits in all breeds. The Angus breed as a whole is vast and contains an extremely wide range of type and kind as well as management. My experiences with them has no doubt been different than the majority of folks. I see many herds of them and sometimes I literally marvel at them. Again no doubt that many herds are likely having success with them, but my experience with registered Angus has been disappointing. Have had a hard time finding decent dispositions, and then in recent years feet/leg structure and fertility have also been problematic. I have had to cull several young cows for not calving regularly. Our Hereford and crossbred cows as whole calve more consistently in comparison. I have had better results with Angus bulls than cows, but still have to be very selective. I feel that commercial Angus are more reliable than the registered females that I have had as many were bought through regional consignment sales as heifers, I figure they were likely not the picks of the litter, Our recent trend towards Herefords has been a bit more successful, they are as a whole calmer and easier to work with. They seem to breed back more regular and wean off bigger calves than the Angus cows. Have calved out several Hereford over the last few years, and haven't had any issues with prolapse. That being said 30 years ago I had some Charolais cows that were bred up from Herefords and we had quite a few prolapses, with that group of cows and their descendants. [/QUOTE]
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