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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1688342" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>We run mostly Hereford, and Angus type cows, have a small number of horn and ear influenced cattle too. If all things were equal I'd probably just have pretty much straight Herefords, just because of overall docility. We put flytags in today and weaned some calves. Calves were by a Hereford bull and a home raised BWF bull, easiest group of calves I've worked in 20 years. We have a few cases of pinkeye a year, sometimes just one or two sometimes probably around a dozen. I have always wanted to incorporate more Brahman influence into the herd as I think it would help minimize pinkeye. There aren't many Brahmans around here now a days, a few crosses can be found here and there. The ones I have had have been fairly docile, although they can get mad pretty quick if pushed. We have one that is dog gentle, opened the barn door and she came right in this morning and went right in a stall. She gets mad and ready to fight as soon as she gets caught in head gate. As soon as she comes out she's back to just lumbering along. Have a couple though that could hold a grudge, but were usually ok as long as they were given plenty of space and not pressured. Over all we have found Angus have been consistently the difficult and most dangerous to work with. Even the little Angus calves can be little kicking machines and will try to go through or under the gates. In the interest of being even handed in critiquing we also had one Hereford bull that sometimes sired calves that could be He77 cats too, that is the same bull that also had a lot of pinkeye problems in his calves as well as excessive and odd white markings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1688342, member: 24816"] We run mostly Hereford, and Angus type cows, have a small number of horn and ear influenced cattle too. If all things were equal I'd probably just have pretty much straight Herefords, just because of overall docility. We put flytags in today and weaned some calves. Calves were by a Hereford bull and a home raised BWF bull, easiest group of calves I've worked in 20 years. We have a few cases of pinkeye a year, sometimes just one or two sometimes probably around a dozen. I have always wanted to incorporate more Brahman influence into the herd as I think it would help minimize pinkeye. There aren't many Brahmans around here now a days, a few crosses can be found here and there. The ones I have had have been fairly docile, although they can get mad pretty quick if pushed. We have one that is dog gentle, opened the barn door and she came right in this morning and went right in a stall. She gets mad and ready to fight as soon as she gets caught in head gate. As soon as she comes out she's back to just lumbering along. Have a couple though that could hold a grudge, but were usually ok as long as they were given plenty of space and not pressured. Over all we have found Angus have been consistently the difficult and most dangerous to work with. Even the little Angus calves can be little kicking machines and will try to go through or under the gates. In the interest of being even handed in critiquing we also had one Hereford bull that sometimes sired calves that could be He77 cats too, that is the same bull that also had a lot of pinkeye problems in his calves as well as excessive and odd white markings. [/QUOTE]
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