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Stirring the pot on the LH/corriente topic
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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1835473" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>[USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] I copied part of your above post to respond to based on what I've seen first hand with beef x dairy crosses.</p><p>(The Holstein x Angus steer shown somewhere above is totally NON-TYPICAL for that cross. Maybe it was a % Holstein??? Anyway, by live evaluation, THAT steer would have passed. But that is deceiving to many people. THAT steer is not what 99.9% of the cross is going to look like.)</p><p></p><p>I raised dairy calves for 10 years the vast majority were straight Holstein, but in occasion we'd get some Angus or Hereford crosses.</p><p>I also had several nurse cows that I used to raise calves, I bred them to Angus or at one point a Hereford bull.</p><p></p><p>You are likely correct in that saying that they won't all look like that steer pictured, however there is a range and could very well be a higher percentage than .1% that look similar to that calf.</p><p>I kept back a few Angus Holstein cross cows and had a range, one was pretty much a black Holstein, and another was massive like a long legged beef cow, another was somewhere inbetween but closer to a tall beef cow look. </p><p>The Hereford crosses were beef cow looking with more white and were great cows. The 3/4 beef calves by Angus bulls that those cows had were literally hard to tell from straight beef breed calves.</p><p>By the time those Holstein cross calves are fed out and ready to process I'd say quite a few of them are fine looking beef animals</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1835473, member: 24816"] [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] I copied part of your above post to respond to based on what I’ve seen first hand with beef x dairy crosses. (The Holstein x Angus steer shown somewhere above is totally NON-TYPICAL for that cross. Maybe it was a % Holstein??? Anyway, by live evaluation, THAT steer would have passed. But that is deceiving to many people. THAT steer is not what 99.9% of the cross is going to look like.) I raised dairy calves for 10 years the vast majority were straight Holstein, but in occasion we’d get some Angus or Hereford crosses. I also had several nurse cows that I used to raise calves, I bred them to Angus or at one point a Hereford bull. You are likely correct in that saying that they won’t all look like that steer pictured, however there is a range and could very well be a higher percentage than .1% that look similar to that calf. I kept back a few Angus Holstein cross cows and had a range, one was pretty much a black Holstein, and another was massive like a long legged beef cow, another was somewhere inbetween but closer to a tall beef cow look. The Hereford crosses were beef cow looking with more white and were great cows. The 3/4 beef calves by Angus bulls that those cows had were literally hard to tell from straight beef breed calves. By the time those Holstein cross calves are fed out and ready to process I’d say quite a few of them are fine looking beef animals [/QUOTE]
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