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<blockquote data-quote="MoGal" data-source="post: 71099" data-attributes="member: 1346"><p>My pasture is mostly orchard grass, clover and about 1/3 fescue. Over the years I've been planting other grasses to get rid of the fescue as I have horses. </p><p></p><p>The reason I started buying cattle is because there's too much grass for the horses and I have to bushhog the grass off about every 10 days in the summer as they pick out their favorite and leave the rest go. </p><p></p><p>I've been picky about what I buy. I want quality cattle and I do like the charolais cross. I like their conformation, stockiness and of course I want gentle cattle. My friend has been in cattle all his life and he knows exactly what kind of cows I'm looking for.</p><p></p><p>The bulls are either registered or out of a registered sire, non registered dam or the ones I own are and they are used in a lease program. Leased by other area farmers. </p><p></p><p>I firmly believe if I buy the best quality I can afford and breed to the best quality bull I can afford then I should have a quality calf.</p><p>The replacement heifers would be to add to my group of cows to raise offspring from. </p><p></p><p>My reasoning behind breeding the brangus to the charx would be a bigger heifer and then breed that heifer back to an angus (to get rid of the longer ear and to bring in the balance of continental/english cross). Perhaps its not feasible (cost wise) to raise up my own heifers and I would be better off to just buy replacements. Perhaps some of you could shed some light on that.</p><p></p><p>My friend buys and sells enough cows (and ships for other area farmers) that the truck comes up at least twice a month for shipping cattle to West Plains auction. So as far as market, any I sold would either be sold privately or else shipped there.</p><p></p><p>There's no doubt this is a black/black baldy or char/charx area but I've not seen a baldy I like as yet. They just don't impress me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoGal, post: 71099, member: 1346"] My pasture is mostly orchard grass, clover and about 1/3 fescue. Over the years I've been planting other grasses to get rid of the fescue as I have horses. The reason I started buying cattle is because there's too much grass for the horses and I have to bushhog the grass off about every 10 days in the summer as they pick out their favorite and leave the rest go. I've been picky about what I buy. I want quality cattle and I do like the charolais cross. I like their conformation, stockiness and of course I want gentle cattle. My friend has been in cattle all his life and he knows exactly what kind of cows I'm looking for. The bulls are either registered or out of a registered sire, non registered dam or the ones I own are and they are used in a lease program. Leased by other area farmers. I firmly believe if I buy the best quality I can afford and breed to the best quality bull I can afford then I should have a quality calf. The replacement heifers would be to add to my group of cows to raise offspring from. My reasoning behind breeding the brangus to the charx would be a bigger heifer and then breed that heifer back to an angus (to get rid of the longer ear and to bring in the balance of continental/english cross). Perhaps its not feasible (cost wise) to raise up my own heifers and I would be better off to just buy replacements. Perhaps some of you could shed some light on that. My friend buys and sells enough cows (and ships for other area farmers) that the truck comes up at least twice a month for shipping cattle to West Plains auction. So as far as market, any I sold would either be sold privately or else shipped there. There's no doubt this is a black/black baldy or char/charx area but I've not seen a baldy I like as yet. They just don't impress me. [/QUOTE]
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