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<blockquote data-quote="MOcowboy" data-source="post: 1497941" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>My original plan was not to keep the full blood longhorns. I was very happy with my BeefmasterXAngus cross cattle. I bought them cheap and my plan was to breed them to Angus, Limousine or Beefmaster bulls and basically eventually breed the longhorn out of them. Or just sell them all when the price went up after the drought which I honestly should have done 2 years ago when the cattle prices went crazy lol. And I am not attached to anything for the right price I will still sell out but I don't see that happening. The main reason I kept hanging on to them is because I was just starting out and it did not seem practical to sell them all, when they was all paid off and I owed nothing on them, and have to pay double to buy the same amount of Beef cows to replace them. My Longhorn cross calves of course brought a lil less than My dads Angus and Limousine calves but I also had a lot less hay in my cattle so at the time it made sense to just keep them. Then I got the bright idea of putting a Registered Longhorn bull in with half of them to keep a few to replace some of the old cows and to improve what I thought needed improved. So I was very picky and went out to find a Bull that had large body frame and later matured to 2000lbs and he was out of a good cow with very good maternal traits to put on my longhorns and now I have just grown to Like them and see some of the potential so I keep experimenting with them. Almost all of my longhorn cows are 1100lbs plus and I prefer the solid color and maybe that's why they are working for me. I do agree that your average 600-800lbs longhorns would most likely not perform like mine are doing. I recently bought another Longhorn bull to replace my other sense I have been retaining heifers. This young bull may have the best rate of gain in the Longhorn industry at 205 days he weighed 631lbs so hopefully he adds even more genetics that I am looking for. I plan on using him in June so time will tell.</p><p></p><p> I really do appreciate all the replies and opinions</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MOcowboy, post: 1497941, member: 32536"] My original plan was not to keep the full blood longhorns. I was very happy with my BeefmasterXAngus cross cattle. I bought them cheap and my plan was to breed them to Angus, Limousine or Beefmaster bulls and basically eventually breed the longhorn out of them. Or just sell them all when the price went up after the drought which I honestly should have done 2 years ago when the cattle prices went crazy lol. And I am not attached to anything for the right price I will still sell out but I don't see that happening. The main reason I kept hanging on to them is because I was just starting out and it did not seem practical to sell them all, when they was all paid off and I owed nothing on them, and have to pay double to buy the same amount of Beef cows to replace them. My Longhorn cross calves of course brought a lil less than My dads Angus and Limousine calves but I also had a lot less hay in my cattle so at the time it made sense to just keep them. Then I got the bright idea of putting a Registered Longhorn bull in with half of them to keep a few to replace some of the old cows and to improve what I thought needed improved. So I was very picky and went out to find a Bull that had large body frame and later matured to 2000lbs and he was out of a good cow with very good maternal traits to put on my longhorns and now I have just grown to Like them and see some of the potential so I keep experimenting with them. Almost all of my longhorn cows are 1100lbs plus and I prefer the solid color and maybe that's why they are working for me. I do agree that your average 600-800lbs longhorns would most likely not perform like mine are doing. I recently bought another Longhorn bull to replace my other sense I have been retaining heifers. This young bull may have the best rate of gain in the Longhorn industry at 205 days he weighed 631lbs so hopefully he adds even more genetics that I am looking for. I plan on using him in June so time will tell. I really do appreciate all the replies and opinions [/QUOTE]
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