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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1029523" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Grew up on a little hardscrabble AL farm with beef/dairy-cross cows - mostly Hereford, with some influence from my grandmother's last old Jersey & Guernsey milk cows, and some Red Poll influence from cows my dad had when he was in high school. Brought in Angus bulls when I was a kid, and under my influence later, a Simbrah bull. </p><p>Wife & I started out on our own, soon after vet school, raising Holstein steers & heifers - made enough on the steers to pay for raising the heifers, which we bred and sold as springers. Bought a few mixed-breed beef cows, tractor and hay equipment with that cash, and was breeding AI to mostly Simmental sires. </p><p>Sold all but 5 bred cows to go back to grad school, and sent them to my Dad's place in AL. Retrieved them and their halfblood Simmental daughters 5 years later. Nearly 20 years down the road, everything on the place here is descended from that handful of halfblood Simmental cows I brought to KY in '95.</p><p>Linebred (OK, toward the end, it was just inbreeding) with home-raised bulls for about 10 years, switched back to Angus sires for 5-6 years, now back to using Simmental, some Angus, and some Shorthorn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1029523, member: 12607"] Grew up on a little hardscrabble AL farm with beef/dairy-cross cows - mostly Hereford, with some influence from my grandmother's last old Jersey & Guernsey milk cows, and some Red Poll influence from cows my dad had when he was in high school. Brought in Angus bulls when I was a kid, and under my influence later, a Simbrah bull. Wife & I started out on our own, soon after vet school, raising Holstein steers & heifers - made enough on the steers to pay for raising the heifers, which we bred and sold as springers. Bought a few mixed-breed beef cows, tractor and hay equipment with that cash, and was breeding AI to mostly Simmental sires. Sold all but 5 bred cows to go back to grad school, and sent them to my Dad's place in AL. Retrieved them and their halfblood Simmental daughters 5 years later. Nearly 20 years down the road, everything on the place here is descended from that handful of halfblood Simmental cows I brought to KY in '95. Linebred (OK, toward the end, it was just inbreeding) with home-raised bulls for about 10 years, switched back to Angus sires for 5-6 years, now back to using Simmental, some Angus, and some Shorthorn. [/QUOTE]
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