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<blockquote data-quote="brimmer X" data-source="post: 1123403" data-attributes="member: 7228"><p>British white cattle are good animals. I have a couple crosses left in my herd. I have had 2 calves from those females last month. One was from an F-1 BWxBrahman cow. The calf was sired by a hereford. The heifer calve is red white face. The other calf is from a 1/2 bruanvieh 1/4 british white 1/4 brahman cow. Sire is from my heifer bull 7/8 angus 1/8 maine, believed to be homo black. The calf is a traditional british white marked animal. It is hard to get the white out of the offspring. It does happen sometimes, but a lot of angus sires on bw cows will result in some skunk back animals. These and others favor longhorn cattle which get docked at the barn. </p><p>I can only assume, the dock you take today is less than in previous years. British white cattle, in my experience, are productive animals, but the color is not what buyers at the sale barn want. That is why only a few crosses remain on our farm. For what is worth, I'd probably breed BW cows to a Charolais to remove most of the black, and sell as continental/english cross.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brimmer X, post: 1123403, member: 7228"] British white cattle are good animals. I have a couple crosses left in my herd. I have had 2 calves from those females last month. One was from an F-1 BWxBrahman cow. The calf was sired by a hereford. The heifer calve is red white face. The other calf is from a 1/2 bruanvieh 1/4 british white 1/4 brahman cow. Sire is from my heifer bull 7/8 angus 1/8 maine, believed to be homo black. The calf is a traditional british white marked animal. It is hard to get the white out of the offspring. It does happen sometimes, but a lot of angus sires on bw cows will result in some skunk back animals. These and others favor longhorn cattle which get docked at the barn. I can only assume, the dock you take today is less than in previous years. British white cattle, in my experience, are productive animals, but the color is not what buyers at the sale barn want. That is why only a few crosses remain on our farm. For what is worth, I'd probably breed BW cows to a Charolais to remove most of the black, and sell as continental/english cross. [/QUOTE]
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