Small Hereford Cows

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jhambley

jhambley

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For those that like small cows, here are some photos of a group of small Hereford cows I purchased last summer. They are 7,8,9 year olds and about 75% old Brookview bloodlines. Most are bred to my Deewall bull and they are just starting to calf.

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Amazing how they've changed since you first got them!
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Yes, they were in sorry shape when they first made it here George. Glad PETA didn't see them in the front pasture last summer :D

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John, they do have a lot of Zato Heir, Turner Ranch/Winrock, and Husker Mischief in their pedigrees.

Here are a few photos of my Deewall bull that sired this calf. He's a four year old.

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They look like the cattle my father had years ago sired by his old Woodrow/Zato Heir bull. I tried to find semen on that bull's maternal grandsire, but couldn't find any. I know there was alot of it around and Carnation Milk FArms owned part of him, but apparantly so semen was kept on him. This was the bull: http://www.herfnet.com/online/cgi-bin/i ... 5A2720272E

My father said he had seen the bull at a bull stud either in Nebraska or Iowa and he was impressive.
 
I enjoyed viewing the photos of your cattle. Going small makes a lot of sense and I'm working on reducing the size of my Hereford cows. Couple of questions: How about calving problems, and how big actually are your cows. Can you give some approximate weights?
 
how big actually are your cows. Can you give some approximate weights?
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They are about 1000-1200 lbs and probably a frame score of 3-3.5. No calving problems but I wouldn't want them delivering a 100 pound calf. She had this calf in less than 10 minutes but remember she's an older cow.
 
Just to give you an idea what they looked like last July when I brought them home. They were running in drought conditions in New Mexico at about 9,000 ft of elevation. Even in poor condition, they were raising some pretty decent baldie calves.

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jhambley":2ekd33c6 said:
Just to give you an idea what they looked like last July when I brought them home. They were running in drought conditions in New Mexico at about 9,000 ft of elevation. Even in poor condition, they were raising some pretty decent baldie calves.

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Wow. How does a guy find a bunch of poor cows in another state? They must really be happy now with your grass.
 
How does a guy find a bunch of poor cows in another state?
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1. You have to be crazy.

2. Lot's of research and phone calls. I already owned two Brookview cows and they were some of my top performers so I tried to locate some more. These were the only registered ones I could find after two years of searching.

3. You have to be crazy. They were being run as commercial cows on 27,000 acres of New Mexico high country. It took four days on horseback to find them at two of the watering holes.

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Some Zato Heir and Regent females we had back in the mid 60s. They traced to LK Zato Heir 39 and then on back to the TR cattle. To me they resemble your cows and ours were started from Miller & Martensen blood.

These particular females were being bred to an Anxiety 4th bull bred by Thompson Bros. He was an Atomic bred bull.

What we did back then was very similar to what you are doing now. Crossing Zato Heir females on Nash bulls.

At least for me please post more of your story surrounding your project.
 
Jerry,

The cattle have really made a turn around, and look to be just what you are trying for. The calf is a super thick, very nice guy! And, we are delighted with how well "Wally' is doing.
 
Jane,

How do you guys train horns on your bulls? Or do you not bother with it. Most breeders now are going with sloping them. I have noticed on several of the pics of your bulls that the horns are up or front.

Just curious.
 
Jane,

How do you guys train horns on your bulls? Or do you not bother with it. Most breeders now are going with sloping them. I have noticed on several of the pics of your bulls that the horns are up or front.

Just curious.
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On most of our sale bulls, we cut them at the angle that makes them go down or forward, (whichever way they need to go). We do this when they are a little past yearlings. Mike is a master on the cutting as he has done a lot of them. On the bulls that we plan to keep, we usually use horn weights on them. On the cows we weight the ones who need it and do that anytime from 16 mos on. Sometimes we will have a three year old cow in weights. We like the horns for several reasons, one being that it is so nice to have their numbers horned branded on one horn and their sire's number on the other.
 
Idaman":3jv5vnq9 said:
At least for me please post more of your story surrounding your project.
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Just trying to put together an easy doing, trouble free cow herd like everyone else. Only difference may be that I've focused on older, line bred Hereford genetics (both horned and polled)

JH
 
jhambley":xqjhm3cw said:
Idaman":xqjhm3cw said:
At least for me please post more of your story surrounding your project.
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Just trying to put together an easy doing, trouble free cow herd like everyone else. Only difference may be that I've focused on older, line bred Hereford genetics (both horned and polled)

JH
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Doing the same with horned Herefords but going to blacks instead of polleds.
 

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