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<blockquote data-quote="Andyva" data-source="post: 1296675" data-attributes="member: 1022"><p>I've been ding some research. From what I can tell, the South Devons are a big cow, more blonde looking, look a lot like a Gelbvieh to me. The Red Devons are being billed (by their American breed association) as the greatest, most efficient moderate framed cow that ever ate grass, and has not been ruined like all the other breeds have in the great race to eat the most subsidized grain. At least that is what the association is saying in their marketing, that is obviously geared toward the anti-establishment hobby farmer. If all that they say is true, they are probably a lot better than some of the other popular hobby breeds, but the Devons in the history books and the Devons of today aren't necessarily the same animal, just by virtue of lineage. It would all come down to judicious use of the castrating knife. It would seem that in this country, they have been in the hands of people without a great amount of time spent in the cattle business for the majority of recent history. I'm not knocking them in any way, just trying to find out more about them, and the ones in the pictures above look like nice cattle. I did notice that there have been some more recent imports here from parts of the world where they stayed a little more popular, and were probably in the hands of more experienced cattlemen than the people that had them 'just because' in the Northeastern US.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andyva, post: 1296675, member: 1022"] I've been ding some research. From what I can tell, the South Devons are a big cow, more blonde looking, look a lot like a Gelbvieh to me. The Red Devons are being billed (by their American breed association) as the greatest, most efficient moderate framed cow that ever ate grass, and has not been ruined like all the other breeds have in the great race to eat the most subsidized grain. At least that is what the association is saying in their marketing, that is obviously geared toward the anti-establishment hobby farmer. If all that they say is true, they are probably a lot better than some of the other popular hobby breeds, but the Devons in the history books and the Devons of today aren't necessarily the same animal, just by virtue of lineage. It would all come down to judicious use of the castrating knife. It would seem that in this country, they have been in the hands of people without a great amount of time spent in the cattle business for the majority of recent history. I'm not knocking them in any way, just trying to find out more about them, and the ones in the pictures above look like nice cattle. I did notice that there have been some more recent imports here from parts of the world where they stayed a little more popular, and were probably in the hands of more experienced cattlemen than the people that had them 'just because' in the Northeastern US. [/QUOTE]
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