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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 18109" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>What I was more or less hinting around at is that the Braunvieh folks are still chasing their tails in many cases. They're almost a member of the bull of the week club. The bull that's hot stuff this year may not even be available next. The semen wasn't collected by a CSS certified stud, I suspect that was part of the problem. The possibility of no real quality control in either the collection, processing or storage. Too many calving problems for my taste, the do grade well, almost as well as our Red Angus and red baldies with more weight. Those 1500-1600 lbs cows eat a whole lot more forage then my little cows do.</p><p>The one inferior calf could have just been the failure to knick well with the cow. I've seen other calves of hers and several of the bulls have gone to herds in TX and OK as herd sires, but they weren't black.</p><p>One thing that I don;t care for is the amount of hair in their ears. They all look so much alike (at least to me) and half the time you can't read the ear tag. Disposition seems to be about the same as the majority of other breeds, more hot heads then Herefords, fewer by far then limo. Nothing to write home about there.</p><p>Lack of reliable EPDs (bear in mind I haven't looked into them for several years), poor calving and large size are the reasons we decided against them about 4 years ago when we were looking to at some Continental influence. I've only worked with two regestered Braunvieh herds but they had genetics from all ove rthe place, from NE to TX</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 18109, member: 34"] What I was more or less hinting around at is that the Braunvieh folks are still chasing their tails in many cases. They're almost a member of the bull of the week club. The bull that's hot stuff this year may not even be available next. The semen wasn't collected by a CSS certified stud, I suspect that was part of the problem. The possibility of no real quality control in either the collection, processing or storage. Too many calving problems for my taste, the do grade well, almost as well as our Red Angus and red baldies with more weight. Those 1500-1600 lbs cows eat a whole lot more forage then my little cows do. The one inferior calf could have just been the failure to knick well with the cow. I've seen other calves of hers and several of the bulls have gone to herds in TX and OK as herd sires, but they weren't black. One thing that I don;t care for is the amount of hair in their ears. They all look so much alike (at least to me) and half the time you can't read the ear tag. Disposition seems to be about the same as the majority of other breeds, more hot heads then Herefords, fewer by far then limo. Nothing to write home about there. Lack of reliable EPDs (bear in mind I haven't looked into them for several years), poor calving and large size are the reasons we decided against them about 4 years ago when we were looking to at some Continental influence. I've only worked with two regestered Braunvieh herds but they had genetics from all ove rthe place, from NE to TX dun [/QUOTE]
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