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<blockquote data-quote="glacierridge" data-source="post: 981127" data-attributes="member: 19539"><p>Yup, I know quite a few dairy folks, they like the calving ease that beef bulls can offer on their heifers and *most* of the time a beef cross calf will fetch them a better price than a straight Holstein bull calf since dairy calves, while making quite tasty meat, take so LOOOOONG to be slaughter ready.</p><p>And I've seen quite a few farmers retain their half blood females, they usually have better temperaments than current Holsteins (they have gotten really nasty mean over the last few years!!) </p><p>and what they don't have in volume they usually can make up for in richer milk quality and I think lower SCC too. I know the Fleckvieh breed is gaining popularity along with other dual purpose breeds because they have some of these good advantages. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sounds like the little guy isn't ready to check out yet, I hope that he will pull through and get back on track. Sounds like he was doing pretty well with the one exception before this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="glacierridge, post: 981127, member: 19539"] Yup, I know quite a few dairy folks, they like the calving ease that beef bulls can offer on their heifers and *most* of the time a beef cross calf will fetch them a better price than a straight Holstein bull calf since dairy calves, while making quite tasty meat, take so LOOOOONG to be slaughter ready. And I've seen quite a few farmers retain their half blood females, they usually have better temperaments than current Holsteins (they have gotten really nasty mean over the last few years!!) and what they don't have in volume they usually can make up for in richer milk quality and I think lower SCC too. I know the Fleckvieh breed is gaining popularity along with other dual purpose breeds because they have some of these good advantages. Sounds like the little guy isn't ready to check out yet, I hope that he will pull through and get back on track. Sounds like he was doing pretty well with the one exception before this. [/QUOTE]
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