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<blockquote data-quote="smnherf" data-source="post: 733943" data-attributes="member: 3235"><p>I agree 100%. </p><p></p><p>Tradition plays a role and defending your territory plays a role too. Horned herefords have a pretty strong hold on the western bull market but that is changing. I have a customer that runs about 800 black cows. Buys several bulls every year and also buys bull from his neighbor and his high school friend who raises horned bulls. He hauls a lot of these cows out to western SD and runs them in 1300 acre pastures and gets along fine. 7 opens on 500 head group. Herd manager told me that last fall, the brand inspector told him that those were the biggest and tamest set of calves he inspected all fall. No creep either.</p><p></p><p>The hired help say that they prefer my polled bulls. Easier to handle, better disposition, and no dehorning calves. Last year he froze up several bulls testicles in a December storm and none of the bulls he got from me froze up. Coincidence, could be but I don't think it is necessarily a polled/horned issue just like most issues mentioned in this thread and other similar threads aren't related to the horned or polled gene either. I have seen horned calves with poor vigor, I have seen horned bulls be lazy SOBs in the breeding pasture too, and if your worried about sheaths, don't buy loose sheathed bulls, just like you do in the Angus breed. Bottom line is to select bulls that have been acclimated to your environment and raised in a setting that can match the needs of your operation. Don't go buy a polled bull that has a pedigree full of show winners and expect him to go out in big country and service your cows. He may do fine, but they may not.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Brian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smnherf, post: 733943, member: 3235"] I agree 100%. Tradition plays a role and defending your territory plays a role too. Horned herefords have a pretty strong hold on the western bull market but that is changing. I have a customer that runs about 800 black cows. Buys several bulls every year and also buys bull from his neighbor and his high school friend who raises horned bulls. He hauls a lot of these cows out to western SD and runs them in 1300 acre pastures and gets along fine. 7 opens on 500 head group. Herd manager told me that last fall, the brand inspector told him that those were the biggest and tamest set of calves he inspected all fall. No creep either. The hired help say that they prefer my polled bulls. Easier to handle, better disposition, and no dehorning calves. Last year he froze up several bulls testicles in a December storm and none of the bulls he got from me froze up. Coincidence, could be but I don't think it is necessarily a polled/horned issue just like most issues mentioned in this thread and other similar threads aren't related to the horned or polled gene either. I have seen horned calves with poor vigor, I have seen horned bulls be lazy SOBs in the breeding pasture too, and if your worried about sheaths, don't buy loose sheathed bulls, just like you do in the Angus breed. Bottom line is to select bulls that have been acclimated to your environment and raised in a setting that can match the needs of your operation. Don't go buy a polled bull that has a pedigree full of show winners and expect him to go out in big country and service your cows. He may do fine, but they may not. Brian [/QUOTE]
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