Brangus Getting it Done Again

[Santas and Duhram Reds]

I am guilty of it too, but raising heifers in general is expensive. I have read it costs 1200 - 1500 dollars to raise a heifer into a cow. I don't know if this figure includes time (I'm sure it does as inflated as it seems).

We calve a little later than most and carry some of our calves through the winter before we make our final cut. We will feed grain if snow is on the ground but other than that its is just native hay. We usually keep 5-10% of our heifer calf crop depending on the year. Rarely do we keep a bull calf, he's gotta be better than good in our flawed eye. Much of this may change though. We may increase our numbers and freshen our herd in the near future. If I was just a little more lenient each year, I wouldn't face this problem of getting older cows. They are still functioning but they gotta go someday.

I have limited experience with Brangus but the experience I have had is that there is a lot of inconsistencies through out the breed. We even exposed them to some of my Santa bulls. I kept at it for 8 years before we phased out our entire Brangus herd.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

true brangus are polled, im breeding up my herd of F1's to brangus now. some have scur's and some polled. but they are all crossbred but have the look of a pure brangus. i got three black simbrahs momas that you would swear are all brangus. but they are black simm sired out of red simbrah moma's. keeping replacement i dont feed them until after their weaned you cant be 100 % accurate if they will be as good as or better than moma. but i want to see their progress strickly done on the teat through weaning. feeding before aint a good indicator of momas ability to raise one.. or her calf's performance

 

[Brute 23]

A majority of people think that Brangus are 1/2 Angus and 1/2 Brahman.... its 5/8 and 3/8,,, right?

Is that true that Brangus can not have horns? I am rusty on my geneology.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

A majority of people think that Brangus are 1/2 Angus and 1/2 Brahman.... its 5/8 and 3/8,,, right?

Is that true that Brangus can not have horns? I am rusty on my geneology.

half bloods will be brangus F1S. but the pure bred 3/8 5/8 will be polled . there are a lot of black eared cattle called brangus and won't be pure

 

[TheBullLady]

Yep.. that's like Simbrahs. A "purebred" Brangus is 3/8 x 5/8. An Angus x Brahman would be a F1.

I've always heard that Brangus are polled as well....

 

[MikeC]

From the Brangus Website:

"Brangus must be 5/8 Angus or Red Angus and 3/8 Brahman, solid black or red and polled. Both sire and dam must be recorded with the International Brangus Breeders Association."

 

[Brute 23]

What about the loose nubbed horns. Those are some kind of fluke right... happens like 1 out of 100 in polled?

I had heard that but haven't read any facts on it.

 

[MikeC]

What about the loose nubbed horns. Those are some kind of fluke right... happens like 1 out of 100 in polled?

I had heard that but haven't read any facts on it.

Those are scurs.

Whole nuther set of genes.

 

[Crowderfarms]

What about the loose nubbed horns. Those are some kind of fluke right... happens like 1 out of 100 in polled?

I had heard that but haven't read any facts on it.

Those are scurs.

Whole nuther set of genes.

Thank you "Master"

 

[MikeC]

What about the loose nubbed horns. Those are some kind of fluke right... happens like 1 out of 100 in polled?

I had heard that but haven't read any facts on it.

Those are scurs.

Whole nuther set of genes.

Thank you "Master"

It's "Mister" to you. :lol:

Only my wife calls me "Master". :lol:

 

[Beefy]

What about the loose nubbed horns. Those are some kind of fluke right... happens like 1 out of 100 in polled?

I had heard that but haven't read any facts on it.

Those are scurs.

Whole nuther set of genes.

Thank you "Master"

It's "Mister" to you. :lol:

Only my wife calls me "Master". :lol:

Nevermind. that ones too easy.

 

[ga. prime]

TnMasterBeefProducer, how much do you reckon those weanlings will weigh mature? Your weanling heifers weigh 700+, how much do your weanling steers weigh? This is uncharted territory.

 

[ga. prime]

OK, I understand, you don't want to answer a whole bunch of questions. Just answer one. How much do steers contemporary with these 700+ lb heifers weigh? Gotta be 900lb.

 

[Crowderfarms]

Ga. Prime

Mr. Master is out on a photo shoot at Camp Cooley, and will be back in the office Monday morning.

 

[MikeC]

Ga. Prime

Mr. Master is out on a photo shoot at Camp Cooley, and will be back in the office Monday morning.

I'd better warn Mark at Camp Cooley Alabama and Bill in Texas that they are in for a treat. :lol: :lol:

 

[Txwalt]

He just posted on another thread. I can't wait to see what happens. Yes my life is boring

Walt

 

[redfornow]

still waiting................

my life is boring also

 

[cfpinz]

Wow. I've got to sign up for this Master Beef Producer Course. I feel so inadequate.

cfpinz

 

[Tod Dague]

I put pencil to paper and I figured it out and it takes approximately now that prices have gone up 57 cents to put one pound of gain on an animal. Before corn prices went up it took 46 cents to put one pound of gain on an animal. Even if I sale that animal for a dollar a pound I am still making a profit.

First off I'm glad your happy calves performance and those are some heavy heifers.

But I think you may be getting your cost of gain mixed up. With your cows being in such good shape I would expect them to be able to have those calves be 600 lbs at this point without any supplemental feed to the calves. Your heaviest is 752 lbs., so that means you received an additional 152 lbs. on your heaviest heifer for all of your feed.

You also say "Besides that their mothers are able to stay at BCS 6 or higher on marginal drought nutrition and wean heavy calves.", but how do you know they raise heavy calves if you don't allow them to raise them by themselves? If you are keeping the cows off of the feed and hay that you are feeding the calves and they are staying that fat on marginal drought nutrition they may not be milking up to the level that your ground will support.

 

[dun]

Wow. I feel so inadequate.

cfpinz

Too easy, I gotta pass on this one!