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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 6673"><p>> Alf, I'm sure that you are right about the feed lots preferring Black Angus-at least it seems that's what most people use. And I believe that there are Black Angus bulls that will produce low birth weight calves. We used to use Angus bulls and the calves were small at birth. Now it seems that so many so called Angus are maybe now what they seem-what I mean is maybe they're not all Angus. There's a guy in our town who breeds registered Black Angus-my vet was telling me that he was going to refer this guy to us for a bull to breed his heifers to because this guy has had to pull so many and lost several calves this past year from his new Angus bull on his first calf heifers. I sold a Longhorn bull recently to a guy to breed his Black and Red Angus heifers to. I'm not an Angus man so I don't really know alot about them but I'm thinking maybe there's been outside blood added to these so called Angus for size??? As for the beefiness of the Longhorns-I have some pretty beefy type registered ones. I have bull form the Yates line that is very beefy (and by the way this line isn't known for having large or very long horns). I use this bull to add beefiness to some of my Longhorn calves and I also use him on my beef herd of Beefmaster, Beefalo and Charolais cows. This bull is black and white and throws alot of black calves when bred to my solid color beef cows. All of his solid black bull calves brought top dollar at the sale barn last year. They brought the same per pound as my dad's black Gelbvieh cross calves (who by the way has had to pull several this year and lost some too). What I think is funny about my black Longhorn cross calves is that I bet they wound up selling as Black Angus beef to the packers. If that's what happened I think that's hilarious because they don't have a drop of Angus in them. Bet their beef was as good or better though because they don't have all that wasted fat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 6673"] > Alf, I'm sure that you are right about the feed lots preferring Black Angus-at least it seems that's what most people use. And I believe that there are Black Angus bulls that will produce low birth weight calves. We used to use Angus bulls and the calves were small at birth. Now it seems that so many so called Angus are maybe now what they seem-what I mean is maybe they're not all Angus. There's a guy in our town who breeds registered Black Angus-my vet was telling me that he was going to refer this guy to us for a bull to breed his heifers to because this guy has had to pull so many and lost several calves this past year from his new Angus bull on his first calf heifers. I sold a Longhorn bull recently to a guy to breed his Black and Red Angus heifers to. I'm not an Angus man so I don't really know alot about them but I'm thinking maybe there's been outside blood added to these so called Angus for size??? As for the beefiness of the Longhorns-I have some pretty beefy type registered ones. I have bull form the Yates line that is very beefy (and by the way this line isn't known for having large or very long horns). I use this bull to add beefiness to some of my Longhorn calves and I also use him on my beef herd of Beefmaster, Beefalo and Charolais cows. This bull is black and white and throws alot of black calves when bred to my solid color beef cows. All of his solid black bull calves brought top dollar at the sale barn last year. They brought the same per pound as my dad's black Gelbvieh cross calves (who by the way has had to pull several this year and lost some too). What I think is funny about my black Longhorn cross calves is that I bet they wound up selling as Black Angus beef to the packers. If that's what happened I think that's hilarious because they don't have a drop of Angus in them. Bet their beef was as good or better though because they don't have all that wasted fat. [/QUOTE]
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