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Our young herd bull turned two years old on March 11. As of today, he has 4 calves on the ground, 3 bulls and a heifer.
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One of his calves was born today to a 4 year old cow that is shown below with her 75 lb bull calf.
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A 3 week old bull who is out of an 11 year old cow.
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The heifer below is almost a month old. She is out of a 6 year old cow.
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The last photo is of a 4.5 year old cow with her 3rd calf. The cow is 50% Murray Grey and 50% Angus. Her first two calves were the same color as she was. This calf is her first grey calf.
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Looking good BB!
I'd like to come check them out in person when I get up that way.
I really like what you're raising there.
 
The young bull looks good and is doing a good job for you! Keep up the good work, BB. You're breeding the right kind!
 
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As an 18 month old he was a frame score 3.5. I don't know what he is currently, but he is probably still between a frame score 3 and 4.
 
Nice cattle always liked the Murray cattle but in the early years the buyers always discounted the grey color up here( probably because they could) and they never caught on might be different now the sellers changed the name of grey cattle to "those great silvers" and they are selling good.
 
Backbone Ranch":3s0mybhl said:
Our cows weigh between 1200 and 1400 lbs.
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They appear heavier than that, I guess due the smaller frame size it's a illusion
Are they higher maintenance cattle to keep that body condition or are they just easy fleshing ?
 
Our cattle are smaller in frame and extremely easy fleshing. We never feed grain. They are by no means high maintenance. The bulls maintain good condition when breeding cows and the cows are still in good condition when we wean 8 month old calves. They will stay that condition on grass alone. We barely have to feed hay during the winter.
 
There used to be someone that I can't think of for the life of me that raised Murray grey cattle around Lawton Ok and posted on here . Edit Ok Jeanne
I remember they were thick and wide, real similar to yours
I sure like the looks of them. They just appears to require lots of feed.
I don't know if they'd work in my rough dry country
 
Murray Greys in general are highly adaptable to a wide range of climates. There are several breeders who raise Murray Greys in a part of Nevada that gets only gets about 7 inches of rainfall annually. I have attached a link to their website.
http://www.7lazy11.com/

We originally bought our herd from OK Jeanne. She and her husband raise phenomenal cattle.
 
Shanghai":32her78u said:
There used to be someone that I can't think of for the life of me that raised Murray grey cattle around Lawton Ok and posted on here . Edit Ok Jeanne
I remember they were thick and wide, real similar to yours
I sure like the looks of them. They just appears to require lots of feed.
I don't know if they'd work in my rough dry country
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Not sure where your "rough" country is, but cattle of this phenotype is what created our beef industry and excelled in rough country. I am sure they would do just fine. And no they don't take a lot of feed to look like that. It's called the optimum size, type, and body composition in my opinion.

Btw, it don't get any rougher than Lawton OK the last few years of their drought. And they are still very much in it still.
 

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