Just let me know...

[KANSAS]

Ok... well folks I finally did it... purchased my first group of calves... 4 longhorn heifers between 18 months and 2 years. Cost 600.00 apiece.

Will be breeding them to red angus bull. (very high quality). buddy who runs purebred ranch letting me use his high dollar bull.

In the process of negotiating for 35 more breeding age heifers for between 500/550 apiece.

Cattle will be taken care of on my buddies farm for a 50/50 split on all the calves. He supplies land, winter feed, birthing, etc.
vet bills will be split.
He will supply all bulls.

Let me know what you think...

 

[dun]

Seems like trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear to me. Why didn;t you start out with actual beef cows?

dun

 

[Rustler9]

Make pics of the calves when they are on the ground and growing. It'll be nice to let some of these folks see what you can get from this type of cross.

 

[Frankie]

Ok... well folks I finally did it... purchased my first group of calves... 4 longhorn heifers between 18 months and 2 years. Cost 600.00 apiece.

Will be breeding them to red angus bull. (very high quality). buddy who runs purebred ranch letting me use his high dollar bull.

In the process of negotiating for 35 more breeding age heifers for between 500/550 apiece.

Cattle will be taken care of on my buddies farm for a 50/50 split on all the calves. He supplies land, winter feed, birthing, etc.
vet bills will be split.
He will supply all bulls.

Let me know what you think...

Congratulations. Welcome to the cattle business.

 

[dun]

Make pics of the calves when they are on the ground and growing. It'll be nice to let some of these folks see what you can get from this type of cross.

I've seen the kind of calves that you can get with this cross, slightly better then dairy to fairly good. But the beating on the poor ones can eat your lunch at the salebarn.

dun

 

[Frankie]

Dun, are you still using Gelbvieh on your cows? Or are you stictly Red Angus now?

 

[dun]

Dun, are you still using Gelbvieh on your cows? Or are you stictly Red Angus now?

Red Angus and Polled Hereford. This year we used Macho, Jeannes Simmenthal and we used a Simmenthal on a couple the last couple of years but all bull calves from it. As much as I like Gelbviehs, we still haven;t found a good red bull that has calves with any tenderness. Great taste, but too chewy for me.

dun

 

[redfornow]

Dun

do you have any macho calves on the ground yet?

 

[dun]

Dun

do you have any macho calves on the ground yet?

Nope, first one is due to end of February

dun

 

[Frankie]

Dun

do you have any macho calves on the ground yet?

Nope, first one is due to end of February

dun

Won't his calves be black?

 

[dun]

Dun

do you have any macho calves on the ground yet?

Nope, first one is due to end of February

dun

Won't his calves be black?

Unfortunately they will, but heterozygous. My wife is getting tired of all the red. If he does for us what I think he will at leats we'll have some darn good quality black heifers. Only bred him ot 3 of the Red Angus so time will tell. Those 3 have alwasy raised dynamite claves and have a lot of milk so I think they should be able to feed the growthier calves.

dun

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Ok... well folks I finally did it... purchased my first group of calves... 4 longhorn heifers between 18 months and 2 years. Cost 600.00 apiece.

Will be breeding them to red angus bull. (very high quality). buddy who runs purebred ranch letting me use his high dollar bull.

In the process of negotiating for 35 more breeding age heifers for between 500/550 apiece.

Cattle will be taken care of on my buddies farm for a 50/50 split on all the calves. He supplies land, winter feed, birthing, etc.
vet bills will be split.
He will supply all bulls.

• Let me know what you think...

i think i would stop with these 4 and see how they do before i would go ass over tea kettle on more