Two questions!

[ANAZAZI]

1: If you got tired of a breed and and quit raising it; what breed was it and why?

2: When you started with a new breed; how come you chose this breed?

 

[Frankie]

1: If you got tired of a breed and and quit raising it; what breed was it and why?

2: When you started with a new breed; how come you chose this breed?

1. We're not going to start raising another breed. If we get out of the Angus business, we'll go commercial.

2. We started with some roping heifers. Angus was the only breed we found that had EPDs. We thought that was a good idea for selecting a bull to breed first calf heifers. Angus also gave the calves a uniform color and took the horns off.

 

[bigbull338]

1.i raised polled herefords for 5yrs.then decided to focus on the dairy.an decided to sellout the herefords.that was the only reason they was sold out.
2.started raising beefmasters in 2007.because they fitt my needs.an thats gentle easy going cows that i can work with.an raise seedstock.will have them till i die.

 

[ANAZAZI]

Thank yuu!
Frankie, what kind of commercial would you then have?
338, I also find beefmasters desirable, but there is no such thing here, ´cause it is so cold.

 

[college_guy101]

1. My dad and I started with Angus and shorthorn cross. We sold all the shorty influenced stock we had and stuck with strictly Angus. Now we have ChiAngus and Angus and a Simmi cross that my nephew just had to have.
2. I really love the chi influenced breeds. I love how tall and lean they are. Excellent mothers as well. ChiMaines and Chifords are no exceptions to this. They may be lean but you can finish off a chi influenced steer very nicely. I don't know much about simmis so I can't say much. She sure has had some pretty calves though.

 

[Frankie]

Thank yuu!
Frankie, what kind of commercial would you then have?
338, I also find beefmasters desirable, but there is no such thing here, ´cause it is so cold.

We had a mixed herd. You name the breed and we probably had a cow in the herd. Far and away, Limousin (red) was the most popular breed in this area when we got our first cattle.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

1: If you got tired of a breed and and quit raising it; what breed was it and why?

2: When you started with a new breed; how come you chose this breed?

1. We're not going to start raising another breed. If we get out of the Angus business, we'll go commercial.

2.

• >>>We started with some roping heifers. Angus <<<was the only breed we found that had EPDs.

We thought that was a good idea for selecting a bull to breed first calf heifers. Angus also gave the calves a uniform color and took the horns off.

funny you should mention that, all my year's in calf ropin' angus heifer's made the toughest most consistant and held up longer.

 

[Frankie]

1: If you got tired of a breed and and quit raising it; what breed was it and why?

2: When you started with a new breed; how come you chose this breed?

1. We're not going to start raising another breed. If we get out of the Angus business, we'll go commercial.

2.

• >>>We started with some roping heifers. Angus <<<was the only breed we found that had EPDs.

We thought that was a good idea for selecting a bull to breed first calf heifers. Angus also gave the calves a uniform color and took the horns off.

funny you should mention that, all my year's in calf ropin' angus heifer's made the toughest most consistant and held up longer.

The heifers we bought from Burks weren't Angus. They were, shall we say, a genetically diverse group? He bought little heifers trucked in from the SE part of the US, roped them until they got too big and then sold them. Most of them had Brahman influence, along with about every breed we were familar with. The best heifer of the group, far and away, was a Gert heifer. She raised great calves, but her udder went bad pretty quick.

Thinking about it, I guess I'm not surprised that the Angus heifers stayed with you longer. They're a tough breed. It's funny to turn them into a paddock of fresh grass and watch them shove and push each other for the best bite. You'd think they were starving. Our gomer bull usually loses that argument with a cow. He'll bawl at them when they throw a shoulder into him to shove him aside and get that best bite. Then he'll stand there looking offended while they're grazing away looking for the next best bite.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

i roped my share of the brahman cross calves, they were plentiful, ran hard and sometimes eratic and were rough on the end of a rope..but a buyer who bought calve's for the smith brother's told me heifer calve were the toughest, angus influenced heifers were even tougher. they ran hard and strait for the other end and didnt sour, and stayed that way till they were to big too handle

 

[DiamondSCattleCo]

1: If you got tired of a breed and and quit raising it; what breed was it and why?

2: When you started with a new breed; how come you chose this breed?

1) My family raised Shorthorns and Red Polls from sometime in the 1800s until the 1970s. They got out of cattle all together. When I took over, I brought in Angus and baldie crosses with Simm bulls. I quit with the Angus breed when I saw how the breeders were destroying the breed with pencil guts, long legs and eliminating the things that made Angus cows Angus cows. I also noticed that many breeders were simply the breed by numbers type which disturbed me.

2) I chose Shorthorn to replace my Angus' with. I was still able to find some good Shorthorn genetics in Saskatchewan and I built a base of Shorthorn and ShorthornX cows. With these cows as my foundation, I'll be crossing to Welsh Black bulls to gain more ribeye and better grading females for my commercial herd. Also, the Welsh Black animals are what I consider to be ideal phenotypes for my area (butts, guts, nuts and backs) As to what I'll be crossing my commercials to, it'll either be Welsh Black (if Second To None meat shops needs more beef) or Simm (for the traditional marketing route).

Rod

 

[Avalon]

Have Angus now . Probably will not change. If I did ot would be to sim-angus.

 

[Wewild]

and stayed that way till they were to big too handle

How big would that be?

 

[3waycross]

and stayed that way till they were to big too handle

How big would that be?

That usually becomes quickly apparent when you try to flank one that has acieved: TOO BIG

 

[ALACOWMAN]

and stayed that way till they were to big too handle

How big would that be?

That usually becomes quickly apparent when you try to flank one that has acieved: TOO BIG

and the older you get, the faster they seem to gain... but around 300+ pnd's and some of those you had to mugg em or leg em down, FRANKIE do you live near BARRY AND BLAIR BURK?

 

[Frankie]

FRANKIE do you live near BARRY AND BLAIR BURK?

Not any more. We bought our first heifers from Barry. Blair was still in high school at the time. When he went off to college, Barry moved over there.