I voted yeas. To most of the comments made by others, I don't comprehend what gives with some of these folks opinions. We have several Herefords that have poorer disposition, nearly like Limousin. They'll be leaving for the backgrounder shortly. We have angus that are just as good sipositioned as Herefords. I even saw a Limousin that was like a big puppy. As to maternal, gaurding their calf, settleing at first servcie, cycling with a couple of weks of calving, raising a large calf, what can be more maternal then that. As to bias, the reason you experience so many people that are biased towards angus is because there are more of them. If you market for red meat (Yield grade) angus won;t fit, if you breed for carcass quality (carcass grade) Limousin won't work (only an example, most of the continentals won't grade as high).
If you have poor dispostion cull and select with disposition in mind. If you don;t have the maternal, cull and select for maternal. This ain't rocket science folks. If you have a cow that's mean as the devil, jumps fences, abandons her calf, only calves every 18 months- What are you keeping her for.
My old mentor, may he rest in peace, wouldn't keep a calf from a cow that had a problem with calving with normal sized calve, didn't start cycling within 30 days, or took more then two breedings to conceive. This was a dairy milking 600 head back when that was considered huge. He only replaced less then half a dozen cows a year. Those were generally from production problems in their old age. Ocasionally injury. The average age of the cows in his herd, remember these are Holsteins was 10-12 years old. Rarely did he pull a calf and other then the occasional freemartin, nothing ws culled for lack of fertility. Yes it takes time, but in the long run it doesn;t cost it pays.
Off the soap box now
Overall though, other then Gyr I would have to say that Herefords are the best dispostioned.
dun