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<blockquote data-quote="TXBobcat" data-source="post: 876590" data-attributes="member: 94"><p>Most of our Longhorns are registered cattle. For the last 8 or so years, we had run nothing but registered Longhorns. Then as the recession hit home and people had less disposable income to spend on jet skiis, boats, and Longhorns, the private treaty customers dried up. ;-) The owner of the ranch then began to look for other alternatives. I knew he loved his Longhorn cows, and didn't want to disperse the herd completley, but he always complained when we took calves to the sale barn. As I had told him many times before, Longhorns may have their place, but the feedlot ain't looking for straight Longhorn calves. So after some discussion, we decided keep the best longhorn cows and also start a herd of Angus and black cross-bred cattle. We aquired a pretty good Angus bull, and crossed that on all the Longhorn cows. All the calves from that cross were either black or black/white and mostly polled. Some do have small scurs. Those calves didn't sell all that well either, in my opinion because of a light frame, and in some cases the black/white color.</p><p></p><p>We have kept several of the 50% Angus X 50% Longhorn heifers, and I believe they will be some good mothers. These are the ones I wanted to run a Charolais bull on to get some terminal calves that would hopefully weigh good at weaning, have good muscling, and feed out well. I don't like the idea of trying to 'fool' order buyers, and that's not what I am trying to do here. I think this cross of 50% Char x 25% Angus x 25% Longhorn would make good feedlot calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TXBobcat, post: 876590, member: 94"] Most of our Longhorns are registered cattle. For the last 8 or so years, we had run nothing but registered Longhorns. Then as the recession hit home and people had less disposable income to spend on jet skiis, boats, and Longhorns, the private treaty customers dried up. ;-) The owner of the ranch then began to look for other alternatives. I knew he loved his Longhorn cows, and didn't want to disperse the herd completley, but he always complained when we took calves to the sale barn. As I had told him many times before, Longhorns may have their place, but the feedlot ain't looking for straight Longhorn calves. So after some discussion, we decided keep the best longhorn cows and also start a herd of Angus and black cross-bred cattle. We aquired a pretty good Angus bull, and crossed that on all the Longhorn cows. All the calves from that cross were either black or black/white and mostly polled. Some do have small scurs. Those calves didn't sell all that well either, in my opinion because of a light frame, and in some cases the black/white color. We have kept several of the 50% Angus X 50% Longhorn heifers, and I believe they will be some good mothers. These are the ones I wanted to run a Charolais bull on to get some terminal calves that would hopefully weigh good at weaning, have good muscling, and feed out well. I don't like the idea of trying to 'fool' order buyers, and that's not what I am trying to do here. I think this cross of 50% Char x 25% Angus x 25% Longhorn would make good feedlot calves. [/QUOTE]
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