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Transitioning from Dairy to Beef in Wisconsin.
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 909563" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>My experience of hereford over dairy is that it's harder calving and the calves are slower than Angus. Limited experience, because I won't deliberately put hereford over my cows so all calves I've seen born are from cows that have been bought in or leased the previous year.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure you've thought it over; your initial challenge with this plan will be retaining the maximum value of the heifers for milk production so that you can sell them after calving... meaning you will need to be prepared to milk them, including training them to accept milking, as soon as they calve. Then I suppose you plan to rear the calves on milk powder? </p><p>Did you consider fostering up the calves and keeping two or three heifers raising the whole lot?</p><p></p><p>I saw a pen of white galloway calves on a dairy last year, most come out white with speckles & some were grey and could be mistaken for Angus if you looked sideways at them. It's a very nice cross and the farmer told me he had a good niche market for the calves at weaning - to hobby farmers.</p><p>I have a photo somewhere of one born to a 3-yr old I had leased to that farm... I'll see if I can dig it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 909563, member: 9267"] My experience of hereford over dairy is that it's harder calving and the calves are slower than Angus. Limited experience, because I won't deliberately put hereford over my cows so all calves I've seen born are from cows that have been bought in or leased the previous year. I'm sure you've thought it over; your initial challenge with this plan will be retaining the maximum value of the heifers for milk production so that you can sell them after calving... meaning you will need to be prepared to milk them, including training them to accept milking, as soon as they calve. Then I suppose you plan to rear the calves on milk powder? Did you consider fostering up the calves and keeping two or three heifers raising the whole lot? I saw a pen of white galloway calves on a dairy last year, most come out white with speckles & some were grey and could be mistaken for Angus if you looked sideways at them. It's a very nice cross and the farmer told me he had a good niche market for the calves at weaning - to hobby farmers. I have a photo somewhere of one born to a 3-yr old I had leased to that farm... I'll see if I can dig it out. [/QUOTE]
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