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<blockquote data-quote="Beef11" data-source="post: 143368" data-attributes="member: 2705"><p>I've though about it. I decide that if i owned the most forsaken piece of cattle country in the beautiful west and calved outside unassisted and had water about every ten miles with 7 sticks of grass in between water holes i would run longhorn or corrientes crossed with a smaller framed hereford or angus (range raised). Other than an envirmental tool or a novelty it is hard to economically justify them. They have a rough time competing pound for pound. There history is great and they still have a niche, but they arent mainstream anymore. </p><p></p><p>As far as comparing them to breeds that have high calving losses that is just flat poor management. If you have high calving losses you did something wrong. Whether it was buying a POS bull that throughs 130 lb calves and breeding it to your heifers. put the pencil to it if you save 1 more calf out of a hundred but lose 50 lbs each on all 100 you probably would be better off with the 99 heavier calves. just my 2 cents</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beef11, post: 143368, member: 2705"] I've though about it. I decide that if i owned the most forsaken piece of cattle country in the beautiful west and calved outside unassisted and had water about every ten miles with 7 sticks of grass in between water holes i would run longhorn or corrientes crossed with a smaller framed hereford or angus (range raised). Other than an envirmental tool or a novelty it is hard to economically justify them. They have a rough time competing pound for pound. There history is great and they still have a niche, but they arent mainstream anymore. As far as comparing them to breeds that have high calving losses that is just flat poor management. If you have high calving losses you did something wrong. Whether it was buying a POS bull that throughs 130 lb calves and breeding it to your heifers. put the pencil to it if you save 1 more calf out of a hundred but lose 50 lbs each on all 100 you probably would be better off with the 99 heavier calves. just my 2 cents [/QUOTE]
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