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<blockquote data-quote="Oldtimer" data-source="post: 50080" data-attributes="member: 97"><p>When I was a kid 50 years ago, my dad and his brothers ran a dairy besides the range cattle-- Milked about 70 head, which was a quite large operation back then-- This was before AI became predominant- They bred their top milking cows to a Holstein bull for replacements-- but the rest they bred to a beef bull, either angus or hereford.-- The holstein bull and crossbred calves were raised and fed out in the feedlot- made some pretty good beef, although they were larger framed and took longer to finish than the cattle of the day-- But now in the day of all the continentals they'd almost fit right in-- Some of the crossbred heifers that we threw in with the range cattle raised some great 1/4 blood holstein calves-- Always bigger because of the increased milk production--Gave us a lot higher milking hereford and angus cows long before the angus and hereford seedstock people bred up to ( or interbred up to ) for that. </p><p></p><p>Remember - some of the continentals that are so popular were milk cows in their native land...................</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldtimer, post: 50080, member: 97"] When I was a kid 50 years ago, my dad and his brothers ran a dairy besides the range cattle-- Milked about 70 head, which was a quite large operation back then-- This was before AI became predominant- They bred their top milking cows to a Holstein bull for replacements-- but the rest they bred to a beef bull, either angus or hereford.-- The holstein bull and crossbred calves were raised and fed out in the feedlot- made some pretty good beef, although they were larger framed and took longer to finish than the cattle of the day-- But now in the day of all the continentals they'd almost fit right in-- Some of the crossbred heifers that we threw in with the range cattle raised some great 1/4 blood holstein calves-- Always bigger because of the increased milk production--Gave us a lot higher milking hereford and angus cows long before the angus and hereford seedstock people bred up to ( or interbred up to ) for that. Remember - some of the continentals that are so popular were milk cows in their native land................... [/QUOTE]
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