Brute, thanks for the reply and definately we are concerned with to much ear. I see your location is south Texas, I've always heard that is where extra ear brings the higher prices in Texas. One of the things I'm looking to do before this calf gets breeding age is go to the sale barn I frequent and discuss the discount they observe with this breed. From a crossbreed standpoint I need to discuss also with the man I bought my brangus from. Not quite sure just how much Brahman has been breed out of his basically closed herd as I don't think he's ever had a Brahman on the farm in the years I've known him so might be nearly bred out. We bought 3 brahman cows last year, AI'd them and only one stuck, The other bred to our Char bull and dropped a nice heifer calf, third heifer was so bat-sh!t crazy in the pen we hauled her. I'll drop some pictures of both calves and some of my black cows and would really appreciate your opinions on this. Don't worry about hurt feelings if anyone disagrees or do not like my cow's LOL. I always listen to others opinions and most of the folks on here truly try to be helpful so I decifer a lot.
Do you have Brangus cattle, or cows that are black with some ear? Brangus were developed from a 5/8ths Angus, 3/8ths Brahma composite, ad their books have been closed for a long time. If your man raises Brangus, there is no breeding out or in of Brahma.
I like that. I have a simular moto.
The man started with brangus breed correctly, to your point likely now they are cattle with ear. That's what got us started thinking about adding some back in
Here are examples of how much Brahman influence is left in my black cows
Why not just use a Brangus bull? That would probably give you just the right amount of ear.
That's where we started but not many in the area. What was your opinion of the black cows?
They looked good to me...very little Brahma influence, but that is fine. Wondered if they were heterozygous for black, but I remembered you use a part Charolais bull, don;t you? THat would account for the calf color. A pure Brangus bull would fix that. What Texas town are you closest to?
Bulls we have used the last 5 years have all been charolais and registered/AI bulls. Still have 9 of the black but remainder of cows are retainment from our heifers so Brahman influence watered down even more.
