She’s done good.

[Ky hills]

January born heifer calf, second calf for her mother.

 

[Mrcopier]

Me like alot

 

[farmerjan]

She is fat/ a real "chunk"... really nice... has done great on your pastures...

 

[Ky hills]

She is fat/ a real "chunk"... really nice... has done great on your pastures...

Thank you, we sold half of our cows last winter, so really understocked at this time. We have quite a bit of both red and white clover, blue grass amongst the fescue.
Cows are milking heavy and even some with these bigger calves will have full looking udders at times.

 

[Bum Steer]

Well done Ky hills and well done baldy cow.


Something that has perplexed me for years is as an industry, why are we not producing this female en masse? Not many dispute the quality of this sweetheart of the cowherd and this cross is easy enough to produce. I think there is a real opportunity for a young person (maybe with grampas support and guidance), to establish a nucleus herd of black females and a Hereford bull battery or vice versa, to contract production. This way someone could breed these females to a terminal sire and not dilute the hybrid vigor tryin to make their own. Then, contract 20% ready to breed BWF heifers as they cull / sell 20% of the cowherd. Think how this could be leveraged with sexed semen and cooperating recipient herds. I would try this if I was younger, smarter and better looking.
Ok, now you can rip into me.

 

[mwj]

There is a limited market for those females. At the time being they are worth more for beef. Most that need a few each year produce there own since they are all ready acclimated to the herd and forage.

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

She's raised a nice heifer there.

 

[Ky hills]

Well done Ky hills and well done baldy cow.


Something that has perplexed me for years is as an industry, why are we not producing this female en masse? Not many dispute the quality of this sweetheart of the cowherd and this cross is easy enough to produce. I think there is a real opportunity for a young person (maybe with grampas support and guidance), to establish a nucleus herd of black females and a Hereford bull battery or vice versa, to contract production. This way someone could breed these females to a terminal sire and not dilute the hybrid vigor tryin to make their own. Then, contract 20% ready to breed BWF heifers as they cull / sell 20% of the cowherd. Think how this could be leveraged with sexed semen and cooperating recipient herds. I would try this if I was younger, smarter and better looking.
Ok, now you can rip into me.

Thank you. That cow isn’t a true F1 BWF, I don’t recall her exact breeding but was out of a 3/4 Angus 1/4 Hereford bull that we used for several years, her dam could have been either a Hereford or an F1 BWF, I’m thinking probably BWF.
The heifer calf, is sired by a registered Angus bull.
You have a good idea there though. Some years back we sold heifers though a regional bred heifer sale.
I found a good niche in the sale with BWF heifers, and topped a few of the sales with them too.
You can take those F1 BWF females and breed them to a Simmental or Charolais for example and get some great doing 3 way cross terminal calves.
I also like the 3/4 Angus calves by back breeding those BWF females with an Angus bull. Hereford does well too but with the market preference for black the 3/4 Hereford have some red calves and often too much white on the black ones.
That concept though of the 3/4 and all British breeding is getting away from your concept of benefits of F1s and 3 way crosses.

 

[GoWyo]

There are some outfits around here that sell large lots of F1 BWF heifers every year and do very well.

 

[Ky hills]

Here’s the sire of the heifer calf. The picture of the BWF heifer is last years maternal sister to the above calf this one is sired by a registered Hereford bull. And should be short bred to the above Angus bull.