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<blockquote data-quote="Rustler9" data-source="post: 239031" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>jaydill,</p><p> If you are going to do something like this, you might be ok if you find a dairy farmer who would sell you calves that are half beef/half dairy. Example: some dairy farmers breed their first calf heifers to various breeds of beef bulls such as Angus etc. These black calves usually make good steers which should do ok at the sale barn and the heifers usually make ok commercial cows to keep for breeding. I'm sure there'll be folks who say otherwise but my dad's herd began many years ago with heifers that he bought from a dairy and kept as brood cows. These cows raised a big calf due to the abundance of milk they gave from their dairy (usually Holstein) ancestry and when they were bred back to a beef bull usually Hereford or Angus in our case they produced a nice calf. Just something to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rustler9, post: 239031, member: 440"] jaydill, If you are going to do something like this, you might be ok if you find a dairy farmer who would sell you calves that are half beef/half dairy. Example: some dairy farmers breed their first calf heifers to various breeds of beef bulls such as Angus etc. These black calves usually make good steers which should do ok at the sale barn and the heifers usually make ok commercial cows to keep for breeding. I'm sure there'll be folks who say otherwise but my dad's herd began many years ago with heifers that he bought from a dairy and kept as brood cows. These cows raised a big calf due to the abundance of milk they gave from their dairy (usually Holstein) ancestry and when they were bred back to a beef bull usually Hereford or Angus in our case they produced a nice calf. Just something to think about. [/QUOTE]
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