COWMOM ---- Sorry if we gave you a little bit of a hard time. If anything, it was good natured teasing and I don't really think anyone is upset with you. :lol:
Recently there was a very humorous and satirical topic post by cowboy_billy, called "I wanna be a cowboy", with quite a bit of comical banter following his post. In addition, recently there was also an interesting discussion topic regarding "black Herefords". Those topics might make for entertaining reading for you, and should be pretty easy to access via a "search" here on CattleToday. Sorry, and no offense intended, but after reading those topics perhaps you will see why a few folks thought that your post might be a similar attempt at humor.
As to your original question --- I can only see the calf in your avatar and he might be a nice looking little guy but FWIW I'd say that you shouldn't entertain thoughts of keeping him for a breeder. I'm not certain but, as I recall, there have been fertility issues with beefalo; also, Brahman's are a little later than Bos Taurus animals in reaching sexual maturity. And in any event your calf is probably close to a year away from really successfully breeding cows. It seems that many folks buy a nice looking bull calf, or have one born on their place, and start thinking about keeping him as a herd bull. IMHO, in fact very few of such calves should be kept for breeding purposes, for a variety of reasons. In addition, way up there in your north country there is no need for a Brahman influenced animal and the Brahman (and probably the beefalo as well) influence would most likely result in price penalties for any of his offspring.
If you want to get some "black Herefords" buy what I think you really mean, which is to say buy some traditional "black baldies". I imagine that in you area "black baldies" are most likely to be 50/50 crosses of black Angus and Hereford. If you are going to have a small number of baldy cows (or any cows for that matter), and in view of all the dairies in your neck of the woods (and your apparent experiences and contacts) instead of keeping your own bull consider getting a tech. from a dairy to A.I. your cows with semen from a good Angus bull, or possibly a Hereford or maybe even a Simmental or Limo.
