nice to have an Englishman on the boards.

[Australian Cattleman]

Its nice to see an Englishman on these boards. To have a different type of input other than US Canadian and Australian.
Would love to have been in England over the past couple of weeks for the World South Devon congress.

Colin

 

[farmer rich]

If thats me then thankyou very much Colin its nice to be here.

And since youve been so nice to me I wont even mention the cricket ;-) .

Rich

 

[Bret]

Farmer Rich.

I didn't notice the accent

Welcome

Bret

 

[Australian Cattleman]

You can say what you like about the cricket. I enjoy cricket,especially the one day matches. Its good to see the Australians get beaten,they get too big headed winning all the time.
I'm waiting to hear a report about the world South Devon congress that was held in England,should have been good.

Colin

 

[brokenmouth]

glad to have you rich.

 

[Ryan]

Glad to have ya hear.

We had a group of people visit our ranch a few years ago from England. They raised English Longhorns. Very interesting and knowledgable group. I think they visited like 5 or 6 ranches in Texas. Main differences in cattle were ours had better legs and udders, theirs had much more meat and higher quality of meat. Plus, their color patterns were more of a brindled line-back (like if a Pinzgauer was brindle instead of the red). And, they didn't care much at all about the horns and wanted them pointing down.

BTW, went to England summer of '98. Gorgeous. Went to Canterbury and then stayed in London for 3 or 4 days. Had a great time.

Ryan

 

[farmer rich]

Hi Colin, I read an article in the Farmers Guardian about that conference a couple of weeks ago, sorry but I cant find it anywhere. Must have been recycled by now.
From what I remember there were quite a few visitors fran AU and the US and they were impressed by the quality of stock, especially in the udders and legs. American guy said they were bigger than their devons and that they look for a more moderate sized cow, but was impressed by their thickness. Australian said he was interested in importing some of the british bloodlines he saw into AU.[/u]

 

[farmer rich]

Heres a picture of an english longhorn for you Ryan

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[Ryan]

Thanks for the pic. They left a couple of magazines with us and most of the Longhorns look exactly like that. That is the look they are going for, or were when they visited.

Ryan

 

[Sugar Creek]

I agree that it good to have some viewpoints that are not the Texas, Arkansas, Florida and Canada slant so often on the board. This is not to put them down for they give the board its character, just to say its interesting to hear the problems and opportuities from other areas.

I have always enjoyed reading about the American breeds origin in the British Isles. Where is Staffordshire and what is a typical cattle operation like there?

 

[Caustic Burno]

I have always enjoyed reading about the American breeds origin in the British Isles. Where is Staffordshire and what is a typical cattle operation like there?

Where the heck do think most of the American ancestry migrated from. Most was to get away from oppression and we were not real good at bowing to a dictator.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Heres a picture of an english longhorn for you Ryan

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If thats a Texas Longhorn he is as screwed up as a soup sandwich.

 

[farmer rich]

If thats a Texas Longhorn he is as screwed up as a soup sandwich.[/quote]

Its an English longhorn, completely different breed. Wasnt the texas longhorn derived from cattle imported by the spanish?[/quote]

 

[Caustic Burno]

If thats a Texas Longhorn he is as screwed up as a soup sandwich.

Its an English longhorn, completely different breed. Wasnt the texas longhorn derived from cattle imported by the spanish?[/quote][/quote]

No matter it is still the ugliest beast I have seen, if it was a dog I would shave its ass and make him walk backwards.

 

[farmer rich]

Staffordshire is in cental England, its a mixed farming area growing combinable crops, dairy and other livestock farming.
Its near impossible to descrive the average cattle operation over here, I suppose they are as many and varied as in the states, just probably on a smaller scale.
Average farm size is around 250 acres average dairy cow numbers around 150.
50% of beef cattle are born on dairy farms. These are mostly raised by specialised calf rearers who sell reared calves to feeders or grazers. The other 50% are from beef herds. The industry is stratified with the cow/calf operations in the less favourable hill areas and the feeders primarilly in lowland areas with better grazing and land suitable for growing corn and forage crops.

 

[Australian Cattleman]

Managed to find a picture of the champion interbreed cow a South Devon, at the Royal Cornwall show. A friend of mine judged at the event. He is a "POM" who migrated to Australia in the early 80's,along with him he brought 22 head of SD cattle. I've got some of those original embryos which hopefully I will use later this year.
He lives semi retired just about an hours drive north of Melbourne, Victoria. he has a beautiful herd of principally polled SD cattle.

Colin

 

[ranchwife]

Welcome aboard, Farmer Rich----always nice to see and hear from new folk and hear how things are going elsewhere!!! hope ya enjoy the boards and learn to turn away from the FEW who just seem to like to harrass others and are rather nasty!!! I, for one, will be looking forward to hearing more from ya!!