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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1830909" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>When Clay started helping the man July 4th weekend, I had to go up the 2nd day and carry Clay a horse. His ( well actually it was mine, too) had thrown a shoe and tore a chunk out of the hoof. The man had a couple of 2 year old heifers he had not sold, and had bred them to a black BM bull. The calves were born in April and there wasn't a one of them under 400 lbs at a little over 3 months old. This is the guy that gives you a copy of the sire and dam's papers with the calves. He started breeding these to be terminal ( with steers..he will NOT sell a bull calf. He believes like me about cross bred bulls.) Some of these calves, steers and heifers, get sold for show calves, but he sells the heifers for replacements and advises them to breed them to a third breed for a terminal cross. Those BeefMaster calves were growing machines. Clay plans on breeding ours to a Brangus. Only thing I would not breed to would be a Sim or a Chi-Angus. I bet Hereford would work well on them if you didn't want any ear. Or Charolais if you don't mind the "<em>color doc</em>". You could probably stand on the porch and watch those Charolais calves growing! He used to sell his steer calves at auction, and they always bring top dollar. When we went up there in July, he had about an even split, heifer and bull calves. But he had AI'ed the cows with sexed semen back in March., so they will all be heifer calves next month. Clay wants all steers, and has a tank of straws of sexed semen from one the Salacoa Valley Farm's top Brangus sires. I told him the other day though, that I want to breed 4 of them..2 of each cross..to a polled grey Brahma , sexed for heifers. If I am around that long, I am curious to see how those half-Brahmas would do with a Hereford or Black Herford bull. But that would be...what...2028?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1830909, member: 40587"] When Clay started helping the man July 4th weekend, I had to go up the 2nd day and carry Clay a horse. His ( well actually it was mine, too) had thrown a shoe and tore a chunk out of the hoof. The man had a couple of 2 year old heifers he had not sold, and had bred them to a black BM bull. The calves were born in April and there wasn't a one of them under 400 lbs at a little over 3 months old. This is the guy that gives you a copy of the sire and dam's papers with the calves. He started breeding these to be terminal ( with steers..he will NOT sell a bull calf. He believes like me about cross bred bulls.) Some of these calves, steers and heifers, get sold for show calves, but he sells the heifers for replacements and advises them to breed them to a third breed for a terminal cross. Those BeefMaster calves were growing machines. Clay plans on breeding ours to a Brangus. Only thing I would not breed to would be a Sim or a Chi-Angus. I bet Hereford would work well on them if you didn't want any ear. Or Charolais if you don't mind the "[I]color doc[/I]". You could probably stand on the porch and watch those Charolais calves growing! He used to sell his steer calves at auction, and they always bring top dollar. When we went up there in July, he had about an even split, heifer and bull calves. But he had AI'ed the cows with sexed semen back in March., so they will all be heifer calves next month. Clay wants all steers, and has a tank of straws of sexed semen from one the Salacoa Valley Farm's top Brangus sires. I told him the other day though, that I want to breed 4 of them..2 of each cross..to a polled grey Brahma , sexed for heifers. If I am around that long, I am curious to see how those half-Brahmas would do with a Hereford or Black Herford bull. But that would be...what...2028? [/QUOTE]
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