Longhorn Cross

[KANSAS]

I love the look of longhorn cattle, but the sale barn docks em heavily. What bull would you put with em to make their calves more marketable. Farmer around me puts Charolais on his. Dont really know how well he does with it though.

 

[Tod Dague]

I think Char. would be your best bet. There is a man that lives near my inlaws that runs nothing but Longhorn cows with a Char, bull. The calves look pretty good.

 

[warpaint]

The general consensus is a polled Char bull. I have a CharxLonghorn heifer, that I have shown a pic of in the past. She does'nt have any sign of horn and folks are hard put to guess she is out of a longhorn cow.

 

[toby]

I had an older LH that was crossed with an Angus, a Limo, and finally a Red & White Shorthorn. She produced great calves every 11 months, as did her heifers that we kept. Her Shorthorn calves all came out looking like Herfords and sold well at the sale barn when I told the management that they were from a registered SH bull.

 

[Proverbs 12:10]

If you use a charolais or angus bull just make sure he is homozygous polled or you will occasionally get a horned calve.

 

[BRATUS]

I was just purchase 2 Longhorn cows and I am very excited to have them and get them bred.I was told Red Brangus would do well on them,But I am thinking of AIing to another registered Longhorn bull.

 

[Ryan]

Red brangus would probably produce good mommas. But i dont think that would be the breed to top my list, especially if you intend to sell offspring at the sale barn. Like one's above said, char or angus would be good. Most any breed would work good. Just look at what you want to do with the offspring.

BRATUS, what bull were you thinking of A.I.'ing to?

Ryan

 

[BRATUS]

with the purchase of the 2 females I was given a choice of classic, Monarch and dode's boy. of those which is really good? I would like to get that texas twist horn.
There is this black bull on this ranch in the panel handle trying to find out that bulls name so I can tell you who it is.

 

[BRATUS]

Ok the bull I was looking at is Jet Black Phantom I like the looks of him.

 

[Ryan]

with the purchase of the 2 females I was given a choice of classic, Monarch and dode's boy. of those which is really good? I would like to get that texas twist horn.
There is this black bull on this ranch in the panel handle trying to find out that bulls name so I can tell you who it is.

In my opinion, I would use Monarch on one female and Classic on another female. Hard to say without seeing the females, though. If you posted pics, it would be somewhat easier to match females to bulls. But, with those 3 choices, any of the three would do about the same in my opinion.

Ok the bull I was looking at is Jet Black Phantom I like the looks of him.

Jet Black Phantom is owned by Running Arrow Longhorns and the owners of the ranch are actually members of this board and his username is Running Arrow Bill. That bull has some solid genetics behind him. I would probably use Jet Black Phantom before I would use and of the 3 above mentioned bulls. Mostly b/c of newer genetics. Old genetics are nice, but there has been a lot of improvement since the days of Monarch, Classic and Dode's Boy.

JMO.

Ryan

 

[BRATUS]

I'm still learning about the different bloodlines in the Longhorn breed.I really like them. I plan on selling the calves as replacement animals.My breed of choice would be Brahmans just couldn't find any that I can afford.
Find some Gir heifers that I may get next month.

 

[BRATUS]

Sorry found some Gir heifers I may get next month.Not sure of the bloodline on the 2 longhorns but they are bred to a Butler bull.

 

[TxStateCowboy]

BRATUS, if you're looking for the Texas Twist, you should seek out Yates bloodline animals. A friend of mine raises pure Yates longhorns and can be found @ http://www.dwdlonghorns.com. Contact them for good longhorns.

You will not get any "twist" out of Classic, or any Butler-line bulls, and they are way overhyped and overvalued.

 

[Ryan]

Another bull to consider for "texas twist" is Rangers Ranch Hand. If you wanted emphasis on the twist horn, and improve/compliment the butler breeding in your two females, I think he would be a good choice. Like TxStateCowboys said you probably wont get much twist out of butler bulls, or most of the bulls in the industry right now. Though, we have had pretty good twist out of our current herdsire. Not a tremendous amount of tip to tip, but have had some good twist, we've got one '01 model cow that had mid-50's and working on a triple twist when she was a 4 year old.

I would take time and do some research to optimize the chances for a successful calf crop. THere are a lot of bulls out there that could be utilized.

Ryan

p.s. another bull i just thought of is Vision Quest. Great size, good twist on his horns.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Breed them to Angus and qualify for CAB jerky.

 

[lil'red]

We started with bred Longhorn/Corriente cows bred to the same. The meat was great! Very low on fat, tender with venison taste.

Raised an angus/limosine bull calf and bred them to him, great meat, mild taste and no horns!!

The original cows we bought were like wild range cows when we got them, better now, but still very protective of calves and not shy to use horns. We usually win that dilema but not two weeks ago when we needed to mow the fields, she won, ouch!

Good luck!!

 

[NE buyer]

I had totally forgot about this untill I read your question, but a number of years ago I bought around seventy head of purebred char hfrs. for a customer wanting them for replacements. He was concerned with calving ease and at his request I found some longhorn bulls. The bulls I picked for him were mostly white. He achieved the calving ease but what I was really surprised at was the quaility of calves, only about 30% of the calves had any color, and of that color, it was only some tawny, faint spots on there legs and underside. This customer sold the calves at the sale barn in fall and split the lots at home; solids one week, spotted the next. He did really well, and the calves were good calves.