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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1823460" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Those 2 heifers do not look so much longhorn to me, but I only have 1 longhorn to judge by. I will say that the white stripe down the back often shows up for generations... had a char/hereford/holstein cross cow... looked more char than anything... but with one bull threw a heifer with that stripe... much like a pinzgauer... and she was a nice heifer, I was growing my herd, and all her daughters had the stripe.... HURTS at the feeder sales.... </p><p>My longhorn is mostly white, some speckles... had a black and white overall speckled heifer first time, solid black bull, 2nd calf... twin solid black heifers 3rd time... white speckled with black bull calf this time(4th calf)... first 2 calves were same bull sire, the 3rd and 4th time were the same sire (different than first sire). Both bulls were homozygous black and polled... None of the calves had horns... </p><p>With the markets as good as they have been, it might well be in your best interest to sell the 2 heifers and put that in the kitty also towards a new bull. Around here if they top 7-800 lbs they are worth an easy $1 plus a lb....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1823460, member: 25884"] Those 2 heifers do not look so much longhorn to me, but I only have 1 longhorn to judge by. I will say that the white stripe down the back often shows up for generations... had a char/hereford/holstein cross cow... looked more char than anything... but with one bull threw a heifer with that stripe... much like a pinzgauer... and she was a nice heifer, I was growing my herd, and all her daughters had the stripe.... HURTS at the feeder sales.... My longhorn is mostly white, some speckles... had a black and white overall speckled heifer first time, solid black bull, 2nd calf... twin solid black heifers 3rd time... white speckled with black bull calf this time(4th calf)... first 2 calves were same bull sire, the 3rd and 4th time were the same sire (different than first sire). Both bulls were homozygous black and polled... None of the calves had horns... With the markets as good as they have been, it might well be in your best interest to sell the 2 heifers and put that in the kitty also towards a new bull. Around here if they top 7-800 lbs they are worth an easy $1 plus a lb.... [/QUOTE]
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