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<blockquote data-quote="bullred" data-source="post: 111270" data-attributes="member: 1733"><p>If you come to the Texas Gulf Coast you'll see plenty of people raising them. They're known as the "Queen of the cattle country". Without getting into superlatives, I'll say that they handle the conditions along the coast really well. By conditions I'm talking about summer temps consistently in the high nineties, humidity to match, and salt-grass mosquitoes that are so big they come in with landing lights. These are the norms from May thru Sept. - not just conditions on the odd day. My father-in-law runs tigerstripes and black baldies. Both are fine cows, but when it's 102 degrees at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the baldies are under the shade treees, and the tigerstripes are grazing in the open. As a means of full disclosure I have to admit that I'm probably going to purchase 20 golden certified F1 tigerstripe heifers, which I intend to breed to a high quality Angus bull, and produce what I hope are some premium calves.</p><p></p><p>The downside to <u>producing</u> the F1's is that the value lies with the heifers, and not the steers. However, I believe that the ABBA has a program (BIM I believe it's called) designed around an initiative to increase the marketability of the F1 steer.</p><p></p><p>CJ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bullred, post: 111270, member: 1733"] If you come to the Texas Gulf Coast you'll see plenty of people raising them. They're known as the "Queen of the cattle country". Without getting into superlatives, I'll say that they handle the conditions along the coast really well. By conditions I'm talking about summer temps consistently in the high nineties, humidity to match, and salt-grass mosquitoes that are so big they come in with landing lights. These are the norms from May thru Sept. - not just conditions on the odd day. My father-in-law runs tigerstripes and black baldies. Both are fine cows, but when it's 102 degrees at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the baldies are under the shade treees, and the tigerstripes are grazing in the open. As a means of full disclosure I have to admit that I'm probably going to purchase 20 golden certified F1 tigerstripe heifers, which I intend to breed to a high quality Angus bull, and produce what I hope are some premium calves. The downside to [u]producing[/u] the F1's is that the value lies with the heifers, and not the steers. However, I believe that the ABBA has a program (BIM I believe it's called) designed around an initiative to increase the marketability of the F1 steer. CJ [/QUOTE]
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