Boot Jack Bulls":ncx6yx9w said:
Given the price of cattle lately, wouldn't it be wiser to just use beef bred females to begin with. I understand the thought process behind breeding your dairy heifers to beef bulls if you are a dairy farmer, but if you aren't, why bother?
A.I. breeding the top 1/3 of a dairy herd to sexed semen and the rest to beef bulls has become popular with dairymen.
Many with Jersey dairy herds have found using Limousin is their best cross for dairy beef as both the heifer calves
and the bulls sell better for them than the other breeds. Limi bulls nick well with Jersey cows and the Jersey has
no problem calving with Limousin, as some might think. Limousin knocks the milk out of a dairy cow and Limi x Jersey
females can make a respectable F1 beef cow provided that when you're selecting replacement heifers you don't
choose any that too closely resemble a Jersey heifer. I'm sure
morancher has his reasons for wanting them.