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<blockquote data-quote="Beef Man" data-source="post: 1076166" data-attributes="member: 13859"><p>Saw the first Braunvieh several years ago in Denver and was, I supposed impressed, . Long ago my dad bought a string of half brown swiss that had been turned out to the hills as yearlings and just left alone. They were as wild as deer and well grown out. THe idea was to make them into family milk cows, no way. The point I'm comeing to is they turned out to be the best damn cows and lasted forever. So when I saw those first Braunvieh it did so remind me of those old B.S. cows. Not necessarily the wildness but type and frame. Had one more interesting experience with the Swiss crossbreed and it had to do with Angus cross's. Fed a big pen of black cattle many years ago and as the cattle grew some of them turned a lighter shade of black and had big brown ear's . When the packer buyer got done with his sort he had every one of these cattle in the alley to the scales. Upon checking back on the origens of the cattle they had used one of their milk cows calves run as a bull and the steers were 1/4 brown swiss. To my knowledge these were as profitable as any cattle that we fed that year. Never went back and trie'd any of these on the range as we are definetly not in a area where dairy cattle can survive and produce year in and year out.[ Think that is why all the continental cattle turned black so fast] Anyway I just always thought that the Braunview and Brown Swiss were first cousins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beef Man, post: 1076166, member: 13859"] Saw the first Braunvieh several years ago in Denver and was, I supposed impressed, . Long ago my dad bought a string of half brown swiss that had been turned out to the hills as yearlings and just left alone. They were as wild as deer and well grown out. THe idea was to make them into family milk cows, no way. The point I'm comeing to is they turned out to be the best damn cows and lasted forever. So when I saw those first Braunvieh it did so remind me of those old B.S. cows. Not necessarily the wildness but type and frame. Had one more interesting experience with the Swiss crossbreed and it had to do with Angus cross's. Fed a big pen of black cattle many years ago and as the cattle grew some of them turned a lighter shade of black and had big brown ear's . When the packer buyer got done with his sort he had every one of these cattle in the alley to the scales. Upon checking back on the origens of the cattle they had used one of their milk cows calves run as a bull and the steers were 1/4 brown swiss. To my knowledge these were as profitable as any cattle that we fed that year. Never went back and trie'd any of these on the range as we are definetly not in a area where dairy cattle can survive and produce year in and year out.[ Think that is why all the continental cattle turned black so fast] Anyway I just always thought that the Braunview and Brown Swiss were first cousins. [/QUOTE]
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