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My grandfather raised registered red brangus and sold bulls. I am running his old ranch but have a few different breeds. Went to the auction today to see if I saw any red brangus but didnt see any. Only sub par cattle. Anyone know the market for registered red brangus. I always liked them because of fond memories coming here as a kid. I still have pictures of me with the brangus when I was 6. Are they worth getting into?
 
I see them sometimes. They are not as popular as the blacks but still used. I know a guy uses them with a Char bull nice results. I seen some crossed with Hereford they looked nice. I have looked at some registered Red Brangus in the past, and there are some nice ones I just prefer Beefmaster. I have seen some that were a lot nicer than the blacks. If you raised some quality animals there will be a market for them.
 
I always wanted to try some. But you sure don't see any here in CA. The semen catalogs always have several bulls to breed to. I guess that you could find breeders on the IBBA website and talk to them. You could also go to some of the big shows and ask around.
 
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My grandfather raised registered red brangus and sold bulls. I am running his old ranch but have a few different breeds. Went to the auction today to see if I saw any red brangus but didnt see any. Only sub par cattle. Anyone know the market for registered red brangus. I always liked them because of fond memories coming here as a kid. I still have pictures of me with the brangus when I was 6. Are they worth getting into?
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Just not that many breeders. Seems there is a nice operation down around Brenham/Chappell Hill area and use to be one over in East Texas a few miles from Nacogdoches. I"m sure there are others I'm not aware of.
 
I have a neighbor that raises some registered ones but has bred almost all the ear out of them. He claims the red angus sell a lot better. They make darn good mama cows though and I tried to buy his remaining animals that had some ear but of course he thought they were gold plated then.
 
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We thought about doing them when we got started, and actually bought several heifers. We had so many problems with color that we scrapped them after one calf crop. If you can find some to start with that have good color, and good color behind them, I think you shouldn't have problems selling them IF the quality is there. However, the other problem is that there aren't many bulls to pick from to AI to, and the good ones aren't available to the US. My personal feelings on them? More trouble than they are worth.
 
Brindling. The heifers we bought were first generation out of a pretty red based pedigree. We had other problems with them, too, but when they can develop brindling down the road it's just kind of frustrating. One just had it on her face in the summer...had zero when we bought her. When the rules say "ANY" evidence of brindling, what's enough to appendix them? More than a couple stripes? We tend to translate things pretty literal, and dealing with bad color in the beginning was a headache. Our blacks were better anyway, so that's the direction we went. There are good reds out there, but in general they can't compete with the blacks. Still, they shouldn't be hard to sell if they are good.
 
If you were selling red baldy replacement heifers I think you could do quite well, but for registered bulls you would have a tough time.
 

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