Jake
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Another little chat room poll about your chosen breed and your favorite bloodline(s) that you use. Our's is Angus and DHD Traveler 6807 line
Breed and Bloodline
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Red Angus - diverse, but mostly Glacier or Buffalo Creek bulls. Polled Hereford Feltons 517. Actually we have never looked for 517 but it seems that the majority of the bulls that work for us are sons or grandsons
dun
dun
Jake":3mug3axe said:
we're polled hereford & to sum it up we look for maternal lines.....good calves start w/good cows. a large number of our cows have victor bloodlines (103T & 2105). these are bloodlines known for their high maternal traits. we then use a.i. bulls w/more growth but also try to make sure they're from high-producing females as well. another thing we try to breed for is eye pigmentation (being in south-central tx this is important to us). as in the earlier poll about what to look for, of conformation is also important as well as calving ease, birthweights. basically, the total package.
we use brangus bulls on some of our polled hereford cows & we're not quite as picky about bloodlines.....we look at growth (for the steers) & maternal (for replacement heifers). our latest brangus bull is a confederate son.
we use brangus bulls on some of our polled hereford cows & we're not quite as picky about bloodlines.....we look at growth (for the steers) & maternal (for replacement heifers). our latest brangus bull is a confederate son.
D.R. Cattle
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Angus bulls on Braford cows.
Angus here, too. We've been very happy with some 6807 sons, but now many of our cows have 6807 and EXT influence. Since our bull customers want tall bulls, we have been using bigger framed bulls. 5175, Neutron 377, and 036.
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Anonymous
Angus
bloodlines are diverse pine drive big sky, wye bloodlines, 60e, scotch cap, offspring of band 234 of ideal 3163, high pockets, euston durness 52b, ext 473, schurrtop supreme, neutron 377, hall of fame 8023, checkmate, 2100, lucy boys, bcc bushwacker 41-93
Patrick Bates
Norwest Angus
bloodlines are diverse pine drive big sky, wye bloodlines, 60e, scotch cap, offspring of band 234 of ideal 3163, high pockets, euston durness 52b, ext 473, schurrtop supreme, neutron 377, hall of fame 8023, checkmate, 2100, lucy boys, bcc bushwacker 41-93
Patrick Bates
Norwest Angus
dun":35spg0ym said:
Wye Plantation was donated to the University of Maryland
several years ago. I think they have an annual bull sale.
You are right, not much said about them, no promotion except
a few small ads in Angus Publications.
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Anonymous
dun said:
The knock on Wye is/was apparently they were smaller framed then became favored in late years. When we started out AI service, Commodore of Wye was a very heavily used bull. I've looked back at my old semen catalogs and can't find any reference to him at all. I seem to recall I really liked his squatty little calves that really put on meat.
dun
dun
PAT B":2gyqsoif said:
Oldtimer
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My bull supplier is giving me low birthweight 1/2 brother sons of New Design 878 this year. Best angus bulls I had were sons of Fortune 2000, California Traveller and Blockbuster- Fortune 2000 heifers are fantastic- California Traveller and Blockbuster son bred heifers squirted calves out before you could check on them. The older I get the lazier I get- I like light birthweight calves that aren't stunted by calving problems and that have the vigor to be up and and sucking in a couple minutes in 20 below weather.
BLACKPOWER
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Connealy Angus Bulls
Sitz Alliance 6595
Sitz Alliance 6595
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Anonymous
Commercial Brangus and angus momma's bred to Camp Cooley brangus (Transformer bloodline) and a hereford bull from the Embracer bloodline
Jeff Bricker
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The Wye Herd is alive and well. Annual Bull Sale is the first saturday in april each year. Look on the Facebook page for Wye Angus
mwj
Well-known member
This thread is 20 years old! Do you have anything to add or are you just pimping the upcoming sale?
StrojanHerefords
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Are the Wye cattle today a serious endeavor relevant to the future?
farmerjan
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Welcome to CT @Jeff Bricker . And take some of the comments with a grain of salt. I took it that you were simply commenting that the Wye Angus farm/cattle were still around and had not disappeared into oblivion, not that you were "pimping" for the sale...
I have heard that some of the real "grass based breeders/graziers" were incorporating some of the Wye angus back into their herds because of their ability to do real good on just grass....
I for one prefer a little bit shorter animal, but they do not sell well at the stockyards.... and getting docked for being short really hurts.
I have heard that some of the real "grass based breeders/graziers" were incorporating some of the Wye angus back into their herds because of their ability to do real good on just grass....
I for one prefer a little bit shorter animal, but they do not sell well at the stockyards.... and getting docked for being short really hurts.
simme
Old Dumb Guy
A 20 year old thread is probably still younger than 99% of the people here. I enjoy the old threads. A reminder of former posters that seem to have faded away (why did they go?) or maybe passed away. Also a reminder of topics and thinking back in previous times. Sometimes we will think "those guys knew what they were talking about" or "why the heck did they think that" - same as people will think about our current posts in another 20 years.
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I will admit that I haven't seen any Wye cattle in many years, but the ones that a few of our local breeders raised several years ago had some traits that many of the more modern Angus that I see regularly could benefit from.
