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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 1021288" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>It really just depends on where you are bull shopping. While I agree a lot of poll breeders were chasing unpractical goals and therefore at a time the vast majority of the polls just were not practical cattle, the same applies to the horned segment today. If you can steer clear of too much L1 influence I'll still say in Northern America you'll find more bone and more ruggedness in horned herefords, but the same don't apply elsewhere. In my experience polls have more milk today, better udders and most have changed back to "modern"cattle. Some of the die hard horned breeders are still stuck in the frame race breeding slabsided, gutless cattle, full of structural defects and sell them as so called range bulls, patting themselves on the back because they didn't get them too fat!</p><p></p><p>Just for clarity I started out with commercial horned herefords, then started breeding polls and now I breed both. While I appreciate the qualities in my horned cattle (I specifically sought those qualities and old time pedigrees when I bought them) my poll herd is far superior to my horned herd and with the exception of only one horned herd here in SA, also superior to the other horned herds I've visited here. </p><p></p><p>When horned herefords were still mostly old English bloodlines, they could truly claim superiority over the polls and no one could argue, nowadays its not quite the case anymore.</p><p></p><p>But...... if you ask me what I love the most, the answer will always be the horned Herefords......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 1021288, member: 4353"] It really just depends on where you are bull shopping. While I agree a lot of poll breeders were chasing unpractical goals and therefore at a time the vast majority of the polls just were not practical cattle, the same applies to the horned segment today. If you can steer clear of too much L1 influence I'll still say in Northern America you'll find more bone and more ruggedness in horned herefords, but the same don't apply elsewhere. In my experience polls have more milk today, better udders and most have changed back to "modern"cattle. Some of the die hard horned breeders are still stuck in the frame race breeding slabsided, gutless cattle, full of structural defects and sell them as so called range bulls, patting themselves on the back because they didn't get them too fat! Just for clarity I started out with commercial horned herefords, then started breeding polls and now I breed both. While I appreciate the qualities in my horned cattle (I specifically sought those qualities and old time pedigrees when I bought them) my poll herd is far superior to my horned herd and with the exception of only one horned herd here in SA, also superior to the other horned herds I've visited here. When horned herefords were still mostly old English bloodlines, they could truly claim superiority over the polls and no one could argue, nowadays its not quite the case anymore. But...... if you ask me what I love the most, the answer will always be the horned Herefords...... [/QUOTE]
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