Farm Fence Solutions
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The beef cross usually takes enough horn away that working through a chute isn't ever a problem. I don't mind a cow with some horn.
elkwc":6a3uchpf said:The horned heifer should make a good momma and might have some LH in her. The other I have doubts about.
Farm Fence Solutions":wtzsrufj said:Our (most) profitable cows are Longhorn X Angus or Hereford crossed back to Angus. They eat light, and I've never had fence jumpers.
Stocker Steve":3f8uoz12 said:Farm Fence Solutions":3f8uoz12 said:Our (most) profitable cows are Longhorn X Angus or Hereford crossed back to Angus. They eat light, and I've never had fence jumpers.
Sounds like the 1800s. The only thing I have noted was that your LH cows look beefier than most I have seen.
How much maternal progress have we made in 140 years?
I was born and raised around dairy cattle, I never gave much thought to beef cattle until I was well into my 20's. Years ago I became friends with an older dairy farmer who also had a small herd of longhorns. He told me something I'll never forget and I think is so true. He said that cattle are getting the "instincts"" bred out of them and that todays cattle are getting dumber and dumber. Call me crazy but this is why I am a huge fan of longhorns.Farm Fence Solutions":256f5xfg said:Stocker Steve":256f5xfg said:Farm Fence Solutions":256f5xfg said:Our (most) profitable cows are Longhorn X Angus or Hereford crossed back to Angus. They eat light, and I've never had fence jumpers.
Sounds like the 1800s. The only thing I have noted was that your LH cows look beefier than most I have seen.
How much maternal progress have we made in 140 years?
Most people won't give a LH the chance to be beefy. It's stuck in most folks heads that they should be racks of bones. As far as the maternal progress.....Not as much as the guys selling six figure replacements would have you think. Here is an honest look at full sisters at 2 yrs and 3 yrs old. My program wouldn't work for everyone, but hybrid vigor is hybrid vigor. I bought a dang nice solid color Mexican bull in 08'.....Named him Obama. We did the right thing and voted his azz out four years later, once we'd used him for what he was good for. We crossed him on Angus heifers, and believe it or not, improved their get in enough ways to call it a success. You want replacements that milk better on junk feed? (important in this neck of the woods) A little Hereford influence wont' hurt a thing. You want low BW? Angus bull is your man. You want really low BW? Get a Mexican bull. You want cows that can survive on good feed, or ragweed, and everything in between? Put a little LH influence in your cows. If I thought I could stay half way close to a profit, I'd have some ear to go with the horn....Just don't think it'll fly around here just yet. I don't aim to take anything away from the purebred people, but that kind of organization just doesn't fit my schedule. :lol:
ohiosteve":26w8l3tj said:I was born and raised around dairy cattle, I never gave much thought to beef cattle until I was well into my 20's. Years ago I became friends with an older dairy farmer who also had a small herd of longhorns. He told me something I'll never forget and I think is so true. He said that cattle are getting the "instincts"" bred out of them and that todays cattle are getting dumber and dumber. Call me crazy but this is why I am a huge fan of longhorns.Farm Fence Solutions":26w8l3tj said:Stocker Steve":26w8l3tj said:Sounds like the 1800s. The only thing I have noted was that your LH cows look beefier than most I have seen.
How much maternal progress have we made in 140 years?
Most people won't give a LH the chance to be beefy. It's stuck in most folks heads that they should be racks of bones. As far as the maternal progress.....Not as much as the guys selling six figure replacements would have you think. Here is an honest look at full sisters at 2 yrs and 3 yrs old. My program wouldn't work for everyone, but hybrid vigor is hybrid vigor. I bought a dang nice solid color Mexican bull in 08'.....Named him Obama. We did the right thing and voted his azz out four years later, once we'd used him for what he was good for. We crossed him on Angus heifers, and believe it or not, improved their get in enough ways to call it a success. You want replacements that milk better on junk feed? (important in this neck of the woods) A little Hereford influence wont' hurt a thing. You want low BW? Angus bull is your man. You want really low BW? Get a Mexican bull. You want cows that can survive on good feed, or ragweed, and everything in between? Put a little LH influence in your cows. If I thought I could stay half way close to a profit, I'd have some ear to go with the horn....Just don't think it'll fly around here just yet. I don't aim to take anything away from the purebred people, but that kind of organization just doesn't fit my schedule. :lol:
I have said I like the looks of some of your cross bred cows , and I do.Farm Fence Solutions":3enyeutx said:
BRYANT":1mtkrsp5 said:I have said I like the looks of some of your cross bred cows , and I do.Farm Fence Solutions":1mtkrsp5 said:
so where are you from, I am guessing north/n.e. from what you are saying about getting docked for a little ear. Where I am from they would dock bad for that line back calf, yes he looks nice but that color would tear the price up. That is why if I had your cows I would breed them back to a Char.