Braford x Angus cross ?

[mossyoakman]

Anyone have experience with Braford sire and Angus Dam in the Southeast ?

 

[Bigfoot]

Anyone have experience with Braford sire and Angus Dam in the Southeast ?

Make a good calf, but I'd switch the parents.

 

[Jessica06]

Anyone have experience with Braford sire and Angus Dam in the Southeast ?

Make a good calf, but I'd switch the parents.

I second this.

 

[wacocowboy]

I know a lot of people who use Angus bulls on F1 Brafords they do pretty good make some nice heifers the Char bulls with the F1 Brafords seem to do better if you are going for slaughter

 

[Hook]

I know a lot of people who use Angus bulls on F1 Brafords they do pretty good make some nice heifers the Char bulls with the F1 Brafords seem to do better if you are going for slaughter

I'll agree with this also from what I've seen here.

 

[mossyoakman]

I'm wanting maximum hybrid vigor on sale calves and some Brahma blood in retained heifers.

 

[Jessica06]

Then an Angus bull on Braford cows is a good way to go! The same bull on Beefmaster cows is also an extremely nice cross.

 

[mossyoakman]

I already have about 50 head of Angus cows.

 

[wacocowboy]

If you already have the cows I would go with a Beefmaster bull on Angus cows not Braford

 

[insurman]

You could always get a good Brahman bull from V8 or someone like that. The 50/50 resulting heifers would be nice.

I am a little partial but you get get a purebred Simbrah. Would give you a good pop on the vigor, bull calves would sell well at the barn and heifers should be easy keepers. Docile and fertile. Would be making your own SimAngus HT.

 

[mossyoakman]

Why not use a Braford bull on my Angus cows ?

 

[cow pollinater]

Why not use a Braford bull on my Angus cows ?

I don't see any reason not to. I came to the same conclusion you have here a while back and the only reason I haven't done it yet is that braford bulls are not readily available here so it would all have to go in AI and I want my cleanup bulls to be the same breed as what I'm AI'ing to.
I think brafords might be the answer for you in the short term and then in the future you can go brangus/hereford and have more readily available bulls.

 

[Rafter S]

Why not use a Braford bull on my Angus cows ?

The only drawback I can think of might be finding the bull. If you can't find a true Braford maybe you could locate someone that's raising F1's who'd have a bull calf for sale.

 

[wacocowboy]

Why not use a Braford bull on my Angus cows ?

To me there are a lot more Beefmaster and Simbrah bulls of better quality out there then Braford. I have been around all 3 and the Beefmaster and Simbrah have always seemed to produce better calves. If you want to with the Beefmaster and Simbrah you can get a black bull to put on your angus cows. As far as I know they don't have Black Braford but with Black Hereford I am sure Black Braford is not to far off.