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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1731853" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Found a guy in the panhandle that raises Fla Cracker and Pineywoods cattle. Last few years he has been breeding some to black angus or Brangus bulls, too. Saw where he was selling his spotted cows...just wants to keep solids, preferably black ones. So, we went down there Saturday, and bought 12. 8 Fla Scrubs and 4 Pineywoods. They are 10-12 years old and are bred to start calving in March, so they will fit in our program. Gave $250 each, so that poacher's $3k bought 12 to replace the one he shot!! These cows are bigger than the Corrs..800 to 900 or so, about the size of a longhorn. But,they don't have no where near the horns a LH does. The Fla Cracker/Scrub cows have horns that are narrow but stick up high, The Pineywoods have horns about like a Corr does. </p><p></p><p>We got back Saturday night, and put them in the corral on the Kudzu farm. Sunday morning the Corr herd was milling around the outside of the pen, 34 out of 83 cows had little black calves with them. Probably the 15 or so we didn't count were off in the thickets with brand new ones. They ought to all be done by next weekend. </p><p></p><p>Scott took me Sunday to see the bulls he wants to use on them this year, and I am not entirely sure about it. His brother has been breeding some of his Brahma cows to a Chi-Angus bull and some to a black Simm bull...supposed to be homozygous for polled and black. ( and so far the calves have been). He sells a lot of these F1 Br x Black Simm and F1 Br x Chi-Angus heifers, but the ones he keeps, he breeds them to the other kind of bulls. :Like F1 Br x Ch-Ang is bred to the black Simm, etc. Those 3=-way cross heifers are selling extremely well, but he kept a couple of bull calves of both crosses, and Scott wants to try them. The Simm blood has me worried a little. I told him when we put the bulls in the last of april, that we need to pull those 4 Corrienite heifers out..they will only be 16 mos old by then.... and just go ahead and put them with the Corr clean-up bull in March. </p><p></p><p>He also has been breeding Brangus cows to Chi-Angus and black Simm bulls... developing a sort of Super Ultra Black. Those heifers are all sold before they are weaned as well, and some people are buying bulls, too, Scott is bringing one of each...a Brangus x Chi-angus bull and a Brangus x black Simm bull as well. The calves were all by ultra black bulls last year, and all the calves were 500-554 when weaned at 6 mos. But, those bulls were actual ultrablacks, Ang x Brangus. Dunno about the Chi-Angus and black Simm blood getting in this woodpile, though. I guess we will know next February.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1731853, member: 40587"] Found a guy in the panhandle that raises Fla Cracker and Pineywoods cattle. Last few years he has been breeding some to black angus or Brangus bulls, too. Saw where he was selling his spotted cows...just wants to keep solids, preferably black ones. So, we went down there Saturday, and bought 12. 8 Fla Scrubs and 4 Pineywoods. They are 10-12 years old and are bred to start calving in March, so they will fit in our program. Gave $250 each, so that poacher's $3k bought 12 to replace the one he shot!! These cows are bigger than the Corrs..800 to 900 or so, about the size of a longhorn. But,they don't have no where near the horns a LH does. The Fla Cracker/Scrub cows have horns that are narrow but stick up high, The Pineywoods have horns about like a Corr does. We got back Saturday night, and put them in the corral on the Kudzu farm. Sunday morning the Corr herd was milling around the outside of the pen, 34 out of 83 cows had little black calves with them. Probably the 15 or so we didn't count were off in the thickets with brand new ones. They ought to all be done by next weekend. Scott took me Sunday to see the bulls he wants to use on them this year, and I am not entirely sure about it. His brother has been breeding some of his Brahma cows to a Chi-Angus bull and some to a black Simm bull...supposed to be homozygous for polled and black. ( and so far the calves have been). He sells a lot of these F1 Br x Black Simm and F1 Br x Chi-Angus heifers, but the ones he keeps, he breeds them to the other kind of bulls. :Like F1 Br x Ch-Ang is bred to the black Simm, etc. Those 3=-way cross heifers are selling extremely well, but he kept a couple of bull calves of both crosses, and Scott wants to try them. The Simm blood has me worried a little. I told him when we put the bulls in the last of april, that we need to pull those 4 Corrienite heifers out..they will only be 16 mos old by then.... and just go ahead and put them with the Corr clean-up bull in March. He also has been breeding Brangus cows to Chi-Angus and black Simm bulls... developing a sort of Super Ultra Black. Those heifers are all sold before they are weaned as well, and some people are buying bulls, too, Scott is bringing one of each...a Brangus x Chi-angus bull and a Brangus x black Simm bull as well. The calves were all by ultra black bulls last year, and all the calves were 500-554 when weaned at 6 mos. But, those bulls were actual ultrablacks, Ang x Brangus. Dunno about the Chi-Angus and black Simm blood getting in this woodpile, though. I guess we will know next February. [/QUOTE]
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