Char Cross Cow Value?

[Stocker Steve]

I purchased four Char cross heifers at a discount last fall. Three of the four wintered hard. The easy keeper just calved a dark gray rat tail. Starting to wonder...

Is there a good cross for cows like this or are they best off in the feedlot?

Kill price is up. :banana:

 

[novaman]

I use Balancer bulls on my Char and CharX cows with awesome results.

 

[cypressfarms]

Kill price is up.

SS, I think you answered yourself.. With the prices up this spring you'll probably make a profit off of them fairly easily

 

[Aaron]

I purchased four Char cross heifers at a discount last fall. Three of the four wintered hard. The easy keeper just calved a dark gray rat tail. Starting to wonder...

Is there a good cross for cows like this or are they best off in the feedlot?

Kill price is up. :banana:

Hereford!

Hard to beat a buckskin baldie.

 

[MoGal]

Besides hereford, you may want to try Red Poll. They cross nicely with charx, however you may get a solid red one here and there (folks think they are a nice looking red angus, lol!)

 

[Kingfisher]

Hard to beat a buckskin baldie.[/quote]

Yea I bet that makes em wonder at the sale barn.......

 

[hillsdown]

A GV bull or else like Nova said, a GV angus balancer bull does wonders on them....

 

[3waycross]

Hard to beat a buckskin baldie.

Yea I bet that makes em wonder at the sale barn.......[/quote]


Could you perhaps qualify that remark. Why would it make them wonder. Do you think they don't know what they are or have never seen one before?

 

[hillsdown]

3waycross, here buck baldies get more than blk baldies, but I don`t know if that is true across the border. However, if they are top cattle they will get top price no matter the color ... I hope.. :?

 

[3waycross]

3waycross, here buck baldies get more than blk baldies, but I don`t know if that is true across the border. However, if they are top cattle they will get top price no matter the color ... I hope.. :?

That was my point exactly. I am pretty sure they know what they are at the sale barn.

 

[Julian]

I believe that Silver Spur Ranches and HooDoo have been using Red Angus effectively on Charolais-influenced cows. Silver Spur refers to them as "Range Fires" and Hoodoo refers to them as "Buckskins."

 

[alftn]

I have a cow that is 1/4 char and 3/4 angus (Black), she is blonde in color......Breed her to a poled Hereford bull, I thought the calves would be blonde or maybe red with white face....Wrong solid white calf, white not grey or silver......Bull calf banded at 1 day old....nice calf

 

[Julian]

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Around here folks run red limousin bulls on charx cows. Calves are a nice yellow color and sell real well.

 

[Anonymous]

Ill tell ya in march. Got 3 braford x char calfs goin in along with one braford bred cow

 

[Beefy]

charolais cross cows tend to make pretty good mammies.

 

[VLS_GUY]

Just remember that you may have had two bad calves because the bulls used weren't the best. I have seen good calves out of char cross cows out of all the breeds suggested. Just make sure you know what your goals are and you use good bulls. I like the idea of using a Balancer or other British Continental cross bull so you keep a optimal mix of British and Continental breeding.

 

[KNERSIE]

I purchased four Char cross heifers at a discount last fall. Three of the four wintered hard. The easy keeper just calved a dark gray rat tail. Starting to wonder...

Is there a good cross for cows like this or are they best off in the feedlot?

Kill price is up. :banana:

Hereford!

Hard to beat a buckskin baldie.

I agree 100%, but I still feel the charolais influence needs to come in the form of a terminal bull. A charolais bull over hereford cows (or any other british breed except angus influenced) would make much more sense in my book.

 

[ANAZAZI]

I purchased four Char cross heifers at a discount last fall. Three of the four wintered hard. The easy keeper just calved a dark gray rat tail. Starting to wonder...

Is there a good cross for cows like this or are they best off in the feedlot?

Kill price is up. :banana:

Hereford!

Hard to beat a buckskin baldie.

I agree 100%, but I still feel the charolais influence needs to come in the form of a terminal bull. A charolais bull over hereford cows (or any other british breed except angus influenced) would make much more sense in my book.

I agree totally, although it might make sense to breed char heifers to a hereford for the first calf. Question is what to cross a commercial charolais cow with, other than another terminal breed like Blonde or parthenais?

 

[KNERSIE]

Thats my point, keep charolais out of the cowherd and use the breed to its strengths.