canadian brahmas

[glover36]

just wondering if anyone in canada breeds brangus or brahma

 

[Anonymous]

just wondering if anyone in canada breeds brangus or brahma

I got a slight feeling they would not do well at 40 - 50 below in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Never seen one in Canada - but that does not make it impossible.

Bez'

 

[glover36]

lol i am from ontario it gets down around 20 well i used to see them in the AI books but now they dont have them anymore so i am thinking of piedemontese

 

[Brandonm2]

SOmebody posted several pics of very nice Santa Gertrudis cattle up there. I am sure somebody owns some straight Brahmas up there just to be different.

 

[Brandonm2]

According to the ABBA Area 13 website there is a Brahman breeder in Canada http://www.ionet.net/~brahman/E-MAIL.html

CANADA
Andrews Polled Brahmans
David & Claire Andrews
Box 189
Irricana, Alberta
Canada
T0M 1B0
Phone: (403) 935-4478
Fax: (403) 935-4900
[email protected]

 

[Beefy]

and polled brahmans at that. how bout them apples?

 

[purecountry]

3 families round here tried Brahmans about 10 years ago. They all thought it was a great idea - I don't know why. I have a feeling it had more to do w/the nostalgic feeling it gave them. That 'Lonesome Dove',' I'm a rancher' feeling. It turned to downright nausea come their first winter when the bull froze his nuts, feet and ears, and the cows froze their udders etc. I saw some of em-poor buggers. It was a damn shame too. They were pretty well put up cattle in their own way. Just taken somewhere they never should have been.

They didn't have em more than a couple years I think. The second winter they kept em at the one fellas place b/c his barn was big enough to keep them in every night/cold day. That first winter was a bad one too. It stayed below -30 F from mid December-February. I'll never forget Christmas day and Boxing Day, it was -55 F. Coldest I've ever been.

 

[Stocker Steve]

It would be hard to tell if there are any Brahmas in Canada or Minnesota after their ears and other floppy body parts froze and then fell off. We even see a fair number of short tails and short ears on fall calved english beeds in northern Minnesota. They get discounted heavily when they are sold as stockers or feeders.