Tommy Ruyle
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I'm looking at starting a herd of Romagnola cattle. Has anyone had any experience with them? What are the negitives?
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Tommy Ruyle":2ziyjis2 said:
Where you gunna sell the calves?
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Tommy Ruyle
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I will feed them out myself or at my Dad's lot.
I don't know from first hand experience, but I have been reading everything that I can find about them and asking whoever will listen and give me the time since I saw them at the KY beef expo last year. It seems that they are still relatively hard to find, but the price has come down quite a bit from a few years ago. The majority are not polled, they do feed out well, gain quick with good carcass scores, and marble well if crossed with a british breed. They are probably, in the end, not much different than any of the other terminal sire breeds. Good luck and keep us informed. I would like to have a bull myself, but "black sells" in my parts, making it harder for me to justify. They do say, however, that the calves will be colored like the mama's, but I want to see if for myself first. Too many red calves dropped from past black bulls x black mama's in my experience.
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We have had Romagnola Cattle for several years now. If you'd like to call my husband can tell you anything you'd like to know about them...931-296-9920 Duck River Romagnola in Tennessee
I have had a herd of Romagnola cattle for the last couple of years and i am very happy with them. Of all the continental beeds i think they have the most going for them. I run in the high deserts of northeastern califonia and western nevada. If we get six inches of rain in one year it is a good year. My Romagnola cattle hold weight better and eat less than the angus cattle by far. Your calves will finish yeild grade 1's and 2's, with 85% going choice and the othe 15% divided pretty even between prime and select. Maybe 1% of your calves will come out white the rest will have the color of the mother(red or black). I personly don't have any bulls for sale right now but if you are on my side of the mississippi I know where you can find some very nice bull. Just ask.
