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<blockquote data-quote="Big Cheese" data-source="post: 1498657" data-attributes="member: 23385"><p>We have had Longhorn cattle for 4 years now and we are finally getting calves out of our heifers we retained from them. We breed our Longhorns to Charolais bulls and we kept those half breed heifers and bred them back to a Charolais. All of the calves out of our half breeds that we have had so far have come out solid white (exception of one yellow and one gray) and are growing exceptionally. Any heifer you retain with your cross will be a good cow for you and I believe the cross will work very well. My advice though is to not go back and breed with an Angus. The black that comes with Angus brings out the chrome that comes with Longhorns. We have bred some of our half breeds with an Angus bull and we will see how much chrome shows up in the 1/2 Angus 1/4 Charolais 1/4 Longhorn calves in the fall but I think you could have a lot with your cross. I would go back and breed your heifers to another Beefmaster bull. Those 3/4 Beefmaster 1/4 Longhorn calves will grow like crazy and will/should come out solid color.</p><p></p><p>However, no matter what you do I think you have a great plan. No matter what people say Longhorn cattle are very good cattle and cost less to feed and keep up like you said. Your going to always have haters that are going to hate on your Longhorns but they will work out and be good cattle for you for a long time. Our calves do very well here and we have buyers at our barn that really want our calves when they come through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Cheese, post: 1498657, member: 23385"] We have had Longhorn cattle for 4 years now and we are finally getting calves out of our heifers we retained from them. We breed our Longhorns to Charolais bulls and we kept those half breed heifers and bred them back to a Charolais. All of the calves out of our half breeds that we have had so far have come out solid white (exception of one yellow and one gray) and are growing exceptionally. Any heifer you retain with your cross will be a good cow for you and I believe the cross will work very well. My advice though is to not go back and breed with an Angus. The black that comes with Angus brings out the chrome that comes with Longhorns. We have bred some of our half breeds with an Angus bull and we will see how much chrome shows up in the 1/2 Angus 1/4 Charolais 1/4 Longhorn calves in the fall but I think you could have a lot with your cross. I would go back and breed your heifers to another Beefmaster bull. Those 3/4 Beefmaster 1/4 Longhorn calves will grow like crazy and will/should come out solid color. However, no matter what you do I think you have a great plan. No matter what people say Longhorn cattle are very good cattle and cost less to feed and keep up like you said. Your going to always have haters that are going to hate on your Longhorns but they will work out and be good cattle for you for a long time. Our calves do very well here and we have buyers at our barn that really want our calves when they come through. [/QUOTE]
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