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Hereford Holstein cross, why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1763117" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>When I was growing up in the 60;s, there were a lot of dairies around here, and people bred heifers to Hereford as much as they did Angus. The last dairy in my county shut down in 2000. There's just not any Holsteins around anymore, and what few there are in other parts of Ga, use Angus or Brangus mostly. I remember those Her x Hols though, nice looking cattle and were extremely docile. But them again, they were usually bottle fed, thus the docility. When I was 6 til I was about 10 ( got my first motorcycle and from daylight to dark, I stayed out on the trails, and wasn;t much help! LOL ) my grand father would buy two bottle calves for my brother and me, and a couple of those were Herf x Holst. We kept them inthe pasture at our house with the ponies til about October. The heifers Papa would keep and carry over to the cattle farm. They would have black Angus calves every year, and these looked just like an ang x hereford black baldy. </p><p></p><p>Best Holstein cross I ever fooled with my whole life, was Holstein x Chianina. Met a man in the late 90's that raised and showed draft horses in competitions. He had a Percheron and a Shore Stallion, and a mammoth jack I sold him...that's how I met him. He also had a team of oxen he showed, as well. They were chiania x holstein. He had 6 Holstein cows and 6 Chianina cows that he AI'd to Chiania and Holstein bulls respectively. He would carry the heifer calves to the sale barn, maybe in 3 days as bottle calves, maybe in 6 mos as weanlings..he really didn;t care, as he was just interested in the steer calves. So, I got to getting these heifers from him every year for 8 years or so. My God, did these make exceptional cows! Chianina are every bit as heat/disease/insect resistant as Brahma, and these gals thrived on our Fescue pastures. We'd breed them to Brangus , and they'd wean a 700+ lb .,, black. polled calf . I guess the Chianina tightened up the udders, because they never had any of the trouble you'd find with Holstein or Holstein crosses used for raising calves. I never kept any of these cows long enough, but people who bought them said they'd get 8-10 calves out of them. When they sold them after they got too old, they'd bring about what the dairy culls cows brought, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1763117, member: 40587"] When I was growing up in the 60;s, there were a lot of dairies around here, and people bred heifers to Hereford as much as they did Angus. The last dairy in my county shut down in 2000. There's just not any Holsteins around anymore, and what few there are in other parts of Ga, use Angus or Brangus mostly. I remember those Her x Hols though, nice looking cattle and were extremely docile. But them again, they were usually bottle fed, thus the docility. When I was 6 til I was about 10 ( got my first motorcycle and from daylight to dark, I stayed out on the trails, and wasn;t much help! LOL ) my grand father would buy two bottle calves for my brother and me, and a couple of those were Herf x Holst. We kept them inthe pasture at our house with the ponies til about October. The heifers Papa would keep and carry over to the cattle farm. They would have black Angus calves every year, and these looked just like an ang x hereford black baldy. Best Holstein cross I ever fooled with my whole life, was Holstein x Chianina. Met a man in the late 90's that raised and showed draft horses in competitions. He had a Percheron and a Shore Stallion, and a mammoth jack I sold him...that's how I met him. He also had a team of oxen he showed, as well. They were chiania x holstein. He had 6 Holstein cows and 6 Chianina cows that he AI'd to Chiania and Holstein bulls respectively. He would carry the heifer calves to the sale barn, maybe in 3 days as bottle calves, maybe in 6 mos as weanlings..he really didn;t care, as he was just interested in the steer calves. So, I got to getting these heifers from him every year for 8 years or so. My God, did these make exceptional cows! Chianina are every bit as heat/disease/insect resistant as Brahma, and these gals thrived on our Fescue pastures. We'd breed them to Brangus , and they'd wean a 700+ lb .,, black. polled calf . I guess the Chianina tightened up the udders, because they never had any of the trouble you'd find with Holstein or Holstein crosses used for raising calves. I never kept any of these cows long enough, but people who bought them said they'd get 8-10 calves out of them. When they sold them after they got too old, they'd bring about what the dairy culls cows brought, though. [/QUOTE]
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