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<blockquote data-quote="Logan52" data-source="post: 1616278" data-attributes="member: 32879"><p>During the 1970s and 1980s I farmed full time. Bought dairy cross heifers at the stockyards at low prices and made cows from them. Got away from this and drifted into Red Polls as they were pretty to my eye and sort of the same kind. By this time I was working in a career and could survive the lower prices at the stockyards.</p><p>I loved the disposition of Red Polls, as calm as Herefords but not as stubborn to load or work through a chute. They almost have a kindness and personality that I trusted around my wife and kids.</p><p>I agree about the udder problems and I had some problem with swollen tits in one line of breeding. It was the coming of CAB and 15 to 20 cent dock for the red calves that finally got me.</p><p>They are long-lived and fertile cattle that do well on grass, noted for the tenderness of their beef. I was pleased with how they weighed at weaning, I liked them. At the yards I would be told I needed to get a black bull.</p><p>I finally did get a Charolais bull and kept back two sets of buckskin colored heifers. They now make up most of my small herd as I drift into retirement.</p><p>I get about 50% black and 50% smokey calves that really perform and top the market from a registered Angus bull I bought from a topnotch herd a county away.</p><p>I wish I could find some nice Red Poll heifers to breed to a Hereford and then breed the resulting calves to an Angus.</p><p>Red Polls bring a lot to the table in crossbreeding for the commercial market. They are just hard to find in any numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Logan52, post: 1616278, member: 32879"] During the 1970s and 1980s I farmed full time. Bought dairy cross heifers at the stockyards at low prices and made cows from them. Got away from this and drifted into Red Polls as they were pretty to my eye and sort of the same kind. By this time I was working in a career and could survive the lower prices at the stockyards. I loved the disposition of Red Polls, as calm as Herefords but not as stubborn to load or work through a chute. They almost have a kindness and personality that I trusted around my wife and kids. I agree about the udder problems and I had some problem with swollen tits in one line of breeding. It was the coming of CAB and 15 to 20 cent dock for the red calves that finally got me. They are long-lived and fertile cattle that do well on grass, noted for the tenderness of their beef. I was pleased with how they weighed at weaning, I liked them. At the yards I would be told I needed to get a black bull. I finally did get a Charolais bull and kept back two sets of buckskin colored heifers. They now make up most of my small herd as I drift into retirement. I get about 50% black and 50% smokey calves that really perform and top the market from a registered Angus bull I bought from a topnotch herd a county away. I wish I could find some nice Red Poll heifers to breed to a Hereford and then breed the resulting calves to an Angus. Red Polls bring a lot to the table in crossbreeding for the commercial market. They are just hard to find in any numbers. [/QUOTE]
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