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Holstein and Blk Angus
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<blockquote data-quote="Lawson Farms" data-source="post: 1162366" data-attributes="member: 14971"><p><img src="http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/Lawson-Farms/Holstein%20Angus%20Cross%20Steer/20140812_1539161_zps3cd1254e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/Lawson-Farms/Holstein%20Angus%20Cross%20Steer/20140812_1539161_zps3cd1254e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/Lawson-Farms/Holstein%20Angus%20Cross%20Steer/20140812_1539161_zps3cd1254e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here are a few pics of one of our steers. The first generation of crosses do not perform nearly as well as straight beef crosses. You HAVE to feed them to keep up body condition and milk production. Yes they do raise a big calf, but here you have to sell them kinda early before the dairy comes out in them. Good buyers can pick them out. We are down to about 13 Holsteins left from our milking herd. We have had to cull hard b/c they just don't do that well w/o feed. We have kept 0 of this year's calves and culled alot of 1st year heifers b/c of re-breeding issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lawson Farms, post: 1162366, member: 14971"] [img]http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/Lawson-Farms/Holstein%20Angus%20Cross%20Steer/20140812_1539161_zps3cd1254e.jpg[/img] [img]http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/Lawson-Farms/Holstein%20Angus%20Cross%20Steer/20140812_1539161_zps3cd1254e.jpg[/img] [img]http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/Lawson-Farms/Holstein%20Angus%20Cross%20Steer/20140812_1539161_zps3cd1254e.jpg[/img] Here are a few pics of one of our steers. The first generation of crosses do not perform nearly as well as straight beef crosses. You HAVE to feed them to keep up body condition and milk production. Yes they do raise a big calf, but here you have to sell them kinda early before the dairy comes out in them. Good buyers can pick them out. We are down to about 13 Holsteins left from our milking herd. We have had to cull hard b/c they just don't do that well w/o feed. We have kept 0 of this year's calves and culled alot of 1st year heifers b/c of re-breeding issues. [/QUOTE]
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