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Hereford Holstein cross, why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Peace" data-source="post: 1762662" data-attributes="member: 41443"><p>Yes, he did have a buyer for all of them at the end of summer every year. I was or am more interested in the buyer of them and why he bought them year after year. I get it that Hereford aren't the most "milky" breed and they may have been looking to increase that ability to raise the calf to a larger size faster, but there must have been other benefits.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, I don't recall any of them, in the time I lived there, being red, they were always black with a white face and some other white coloring, but usually in Hereford type coloring as opposed to spotting.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right, but his son told me they bought them all, heifers and steers. They raised them on their "swamp pasture", which is the lower land they couldn't till, but could run those calves on. They, the breeder, would put them on the pasture in April and take them off in October and load them up on the buyers truck. </p><p></p><p>It was in the early 70's and they didn't breed their heifers until they were about 24 months or so, probably 20 months at the earliest, so I'm not really sure calving ease played into it.</p><p></p><p>Is it possible that the Hereford influence gave them better or thicker muscling than Angus? I find it interesting now as I don't think I've seen that cross since then...and that's a long time ago...50 years...damn I'm getting old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peace, post: 1762662, member: 41443"] Yes, he did have a buyer for all of them at the end of summer every year. I was or am more interested in the buyer of them and why he bought them year after year. I get it that Hereford aren't the most "milky" breed and they may have been looking to increase that ability to raise the calf to a larger size faster, but there must have been other benefits. Honestly, I don't recall any of them, in the time I lived there, being red, they were always black with a white face and some other white coloring, but usually in Hereford type coloring as opposed to spotting. Right, but his son told me they bought them all, heifers and steers. They raised them on their "swamp pasture", which is the lower land they couldn't till, but could run those calves on. They, the breeder, would put them on the pasture in April and take them off in October and load them up on the buyers truck. It was in the early 70's and they didn't breed their heifers until they were about 24 months or so, probably 20 months at the earliest, so I'm not really sure calving ease played into it. Is it possible that the Hereford influence gave them better or thicker muscling than Angus? I find it interesting now as I don't think I've seen that cross since then...and that's a long time ago...50 years...damn I'm getting old [/QUOTE]
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