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<blockquote data-quote="Victoria" data-source="post: 147338" data-attributes="member: 1258"><p><em><em><em>Victoria,</em></em></em></p><p><em><em><em>I have several herefords bred to a good red angus bull. They will calve in march. Looking forward to some heifers of retaining quality. Hope I'm as pleased as you. But I'm confident in the quality of the bull.</em></em></em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some of our best commercial cattle are Red Angus/Hereford cross. We bought some 12 years ago and they are still producing some great calves. So you should get some great looking heifers to keep. </p><p> We were breeding them Charolais and they did well but some of those calves just got too cold. Now that they are bred Red Angus there is no trouble at all. We got a Red Angus bull for our heifers and those calves had no problems dealing with the cold. We were watching the Charolais babies from the cows that knew what they were doing lying there wanting to die and the first calf heifer's calves were literally up and running in freezing temperatures soaking wet. That was when we decided we had fought with Charolais calves too long and did the switch. Not that I am putting down Charolais. I love our half Charolais cows, they're docile and have some huge calves but the calves are slow and wimpy and we don't have the set up to deal with that. It's important to find the breed that works best for your situation. We were trying to jam a square peg into a round hole for far too many years. Mind you, we might still be attempting but the price for those Red Angus and Red Angus cross calves has really improved up here. Used to be the buckskin calves were what sold but now our prices are just as good on the reds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victoria, post: 147338, member: 1258"] [i][i][i]Victoria, I have several herefords bred to a good red angus bull. They will calve in march. Looking forward to some heifers of retaining quality. Hope I'm as pleased as you. But I'm confident in the quality of the bull.[/i][/i][/i] Some of our best commercial cattle are Red Angus/Hereford cross. We bought some 12 years ago and they are still producing some great calves. So you should get some great looking heifers to keep. We were breeding them Charolais and they did well but some of those calves just got too cold. Now that they are bred Red Angus there is no trouble at all. We got a Red Angus bull for our heifers and those calves had no problems dealing with the cold. We were watching the Charolais babies from the cows that knew what they were doing lying there wanting to die and the first calf heifer's calves were literally up and running in freezing temperatures soaking wet. That was when we decided we had fought with Charolais calves too long and did the switch. Not that I am putting down Charolais. I love our half Charolais cows, they're docile and have some huge calves but the calves are slow and wimpy and we don't have the set up to deal with that. It's important to find the breed that works best for your situation. We were trying to jam a square peg into a round hole for far too many years. Mind you, we might still be attempting but the price for those Red Angus and Red Angus cross calves has really improved up here. Used to be the buckskin calves were what sold but now our prices are just as good on the reds. [/QUOTE]
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