Ky hills
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Front calf is 1/2 Jersey, next is 1/4 Jersey
They are both 7 months old, pulled off the cows about a week ago.
They are both 7 months old, pulled off the cows about a week ago.
Next years beef calves.
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Rancher
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I see a lot of diff between the two. Is the sire the same for both?
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Ky hills
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Yes same sire, 3/4 Angus 1/4 Hereford. Calves were born 2 days apart. The first calf in the picture is by a full Jersey nurse cow, he was raised in the cow for several months along with three other calves, then turned out for a while with just him nursing the cow.
The second calf is 1/2 Jersey cow. She was the result of a neighbor’s Jersey bull breeding one of our commercial black heifers. The black cow is heterozygous black so her Jersey cross heifer turned out to be color of a Jersey but with more of a beef look.
Logan52
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A couple of years ago I raised a beef nearly identical to the one on the left, out of my Jersey nurse cow by a Sim-Angus bull.
Ugly, but a beautiful brindle color, and pet dog gentle.
It was melt in your mouth, cut with a fork tender. I should have used more corn and less commodity mix and fed it a little longer, but we all still really enjoyed it on the plate. It did have a sort of tang or different taste than store bought beef.
Ugly, but a beautiful brindle color, and pet dog gentle.
It was melt in your mouth, cut with a fork tender. I should have used more corn and less commodity mix and fed it a little longer, but we all still really enjoyed it on the plate. It did have a sort of tang or different taste than store bought beef.
