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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 102564" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I have mixed beef cows and have done very well buying longhorn cows. The longhorns I see go through the barn are mostly 3 types: light boned and small that dont give much milk, real big and real heavy boned with huge based horns, they dont give much milk and are hard to handle, and then about 60 percent of them are the other type, medium to heavy boned, 850-1000 pounds and milk real well and are great mothers. They will eat and do well on pastures that other cows wont touch and I breed them to a charlois bull and they have high selling yellow calves that grow real well. Medic, unfortunately, I am one of those guys who cuts the horns off, I only have 1 horned longhorn. The more demand there is for feeders, the less the discount for the longhorn calves. There are lots of them bringing 1-1.25 now. When the demand is light, there is a larger discount. Up until about 5 years ago, you could buy all the longhorn steers from 400-600 lbs for 30 cents per pound, also all the longhorn cows you wanted for 250-300 dollars. Now they are higher and alot more people are buying them, which also makes the breed more attractive. I have been very happy with the longhorns I have had but I pay attention and stay away from the two types that dont milk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 102564, member: 1150"] I have mixed beef cows and have done very well buying longhorn cows. The longhorns I see go through the barn are mostly 3 types: light boned and small that dont give much milk, real big and real heavy boned with huge based horns, they dont give much milk and are hard to handle, and then about 60 percent of them are the other type, medium to heavy boned, 850-1000 pounds and milk real well and are great mothers. They will eat and do well on pastures that other cows wont touch and I breed them to a charlois bull and they have high selling yellow calves that grow real well. Medic, unfortunately, I am one of those guys who cuts the horns off, I only have 1 horned longhorn. The more demand there is for feeders, the less the discount for the longhorn calves. There are lots of them bringing 1-1.25 now. When the demand is light, there is a larger discount. Up until about 5 years ago, you could buy all the longhorn steers from 400-600 lbs for 30 cents per pound, also all the longhorn cows you wanted for 250-300 dollars. Now they are higher and alot more people are buying them, which also makes the breed more attractive. I have been very happy with the longhorns I have had but I pay attention and stay away from the two types that dont milk [/QUOTE]
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