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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1761901" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If they had an attitude as a heifer, it is unlikely it would improve as a cow. I just shipped a 7 mo bred angus jersey guernsey cross that was a total idiot in the barn. She will make some farmer a decent "beef cow", but I was not going to deal with her "want to run over you in the barn/pen" idiotic attitude and her lack of cooperation to come in the catch pen. She was raised on my guernsey/jersey cross nurse cow and in the barn from a day old with another calf grafted on the cow. </p><p>Got another 1/2 angus -- 1/2 jersey-holstein(dam) heifer calf now; on my jer/hol nurse cow (her own calf), that is a jerk and the 2 ang/hol bull calves I grafted on her are easy going and will allow me to rub on them, yet I cannot get near the heifer ..... go figure. It is the 3rd lactation for this cow, and she has raised 5 her first lactation; 3 at first, then 2 put on her after weaning the first 3... then 4 the second lactation... 3 then weaned and an orphan put on her 2 days after we shipped her first three and she fed him 5 months as she did not breed back right away.... this time her own calf is a jerk. If this heifer does not get her attitude adjusted, she will get sold too. </p><p>I think hereford/dairy crosses tend to have better dispositions than angus x. But I have 2 jer/angus crosses that are as quiet and easy going as all get out also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1761901, member: 25884"] If they had an attitude as a heifer, it is unlikely it would improve as a cow. I just shipped a 7 mo bred angus jersey guernsey cross that was a total idiot in the barn. She will make some farmer a decent "beef cow", but I was not going to deal with her "want to run over you in the barn/pen" idiotic attitude and her lack of cooperation to come in the catch pen. She was raised on my guernsey/jersey cross nurse cow and in the barn from a day old with another calf grafted on the cow. Got another 1/2 angus -- 1/2 jersey-holstein(dam) heifer calf now; on my jer/hol nurse cow (her own calf), that is a jerk and the 2 ang/hol bull calves I grafted on her are easy going and will allow me to rub on them, yet I cannot get near the heifer ..... go figure. It is the 3rd lactation for this cow, and she has raised 5 her first lactation; 3 at first, then 2 put on her after weaning the first 3... then 4 the second lactation... 3 then weaned and an orphan put on her 2 days after we shipped her first three and she fed him 5 months as she did not breed back right away.... this time her own calf is a jerk. If this heifer does not get her attitude adjusted, she will get sold too. I think hereford/dairy crosses tend to have better dispositions than angus x. But I have 2 jer/angus crosses that are as quiet and easy going as all get out also. [/QUOTE]
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