when I got here my Papaw had a super nice and stout Limo bull. I kept 7 or 8 heifers out of him that last year. Only 2 of them made enough milk to properly care for a calf. I still have the two.
My statement was directed at Jeanne.
My heifers are crossbred Simmental. But when I say crossbred I mean 5/8 at minimum, up to at least 31/32 by now I'd think.
Simmental purebreds can have anything in their family tree. They are crossbreds.
Breed the angus heifers to angus. Hybrid vigor from the british-continental cross will erase your calving ease in my opinion.
Some of the buying decisions that the commercial buyers make and the prices they will pay make no sense... and I don't know why they do it. If anyone can make a justifiable case why a frozen tail/ear calf should be docked heavily, or a meaty shorthorn get less than a solid black Holstein cross when they are going to slaughter in six months, I'd like to hear it. It doesn't matter how long ears are or what color a calf is when it's in the freezer.
A lot of the Shorthorns get overly fat and thus the yield grade drops making them worth less when paid on the grid. A percentage of the frozen ear and tail calves have other internal and foot injuries caused by the cold. Thus they have more sick or lame calves both which cost the feedlot money. In both cases it is not 100% but enough to make it noticeable to the feedlots so they don't want them or buy at a discounted price. And here is see those Holstein cross calves get a discount right with the Longhorn or Correntie crosses.
