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Shorthorns in the cajun country area?
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<blockquote data-quote="3waycross" data-source="post: 623487" data-attributes="member: 6713"><p>I'm not sure I have answers to all your questions. As far as maternal EPD's for shorthorns, based solely on my limited experience I have to think a short horn with low milk numbers wil still have more milk than some breeds. As far as the son not having much for EPD's. I would have to believe they are not gonna be that different from his fathers. Being close to the breed leaders for low birthweight it makes sense to me that they would be a lot more maternal than terminal. What color are your cows? That will have a big influence on what color even the red one would throw. We have bred them to a hereto black Gelbvieh bull and got everything from red roans to solid blacks out of red roan cows. One thing is for sure those Shorthorn and Shorthorn cross cows make some real good mommas. Especially when crossed back to an angus. ShorthornxGelbvieh/Angus seems to be a great program at least for us. The first cross heifers calved easily and milked like holsteins. They also have very good dispositions.</p><p></p><p>That's about all I can tell you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="3waycross, post: 623487, member: 6713"] I'm not sure I have answers to all your questions. As far as maternal EPD's for shorthorns, based solely on my limited experience I have to think a short horn with low milk numbers wil still have more milk than some breeds. As far as the son not having much for EPD's. I would have to believe they are not gonna be that different from his fathers. Being close to the breed leaders for low birthweight it makes sense to me that they would be a lot more maternal than terminal. What color are your cows? That will have a big influence on what color even the red one would throw. We have bred them to a hereto black Gelbvieh bull and got everything from red roans to solid blacks out of red roan cows. One thing is for sure those Shorthorn and Shorthorn cross cows make some real good mommas. Especially when crossed back to an angus. ShorthornxGelbvieh/Angus seems to be a great program at least for us. The first cross heifers calved easily and milked like holsteins. They also have very good dispositions. That's about all I can tell you [/QUOTE]
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