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<blockquote data-quote="Kent" data-source="post: 193575" data-attributes="member: 2134"><p>Good post. I use them both, horned and polled. I have some Remitall and some Feltons blood in my herd (two heavily linebred herds, by the way). The horned cattle are just more consistent, in my experience. </p><p></p><p>As far as dehorning goes, if you cross with Angus, you don't really have to worry about the horns. And if you buy horned Herf females, they have already been dehorned by someone who didn't mind doing it. Then, breed to a homo polled bull, e.g. Angus or Red Angus. With one of the breeds trying to go polled (even polled Herfs), it's a crap shoot as to whether you have a homo polled bull.</p><p></p><p>I do notice that some of the big polled bulls of today have horned sons in the showring, like Kootenay 9K and some other Remitall bulls. Of course, Feltons Domino 774 is half horned, so all of his sons have the chance to carry the horned gene. My point is that you cannot design a breed around the fact that you do not want to dehorn calves. The bulls have to sire beef calves more consistently than your competing breeds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kent, post: 193575, member: 2134"] Good post. I use them both, horned and polled. I have some Remitall and some Feltons blood in my herd (two heavily linebred herds, by the way). The horned cattle are just more consistent, in my experience. As far as dehorning goes, if you cross with Angus, you don't really have to worry about the horns. And if you buy horned Herf females, they have already been dehorned by someone who didn't mind doing it. Then, breed to a homo polled bull, e.g. Angus or Red Angus. With one of the breeds trying to go polled (even polled Herfs), it's a crap shoot as to whether you have a homo polled bull. I do notice that some of the big polled bulls of today have horned sons in the showring, like Kootenay 9K and some other Remitall bulls. Of course, Feltons Domino 774 is half horned, so all of his sons have the chance to carry the horned gene. My point is that you cannot design a breed around the fact that you do not want to dehorn calves. The bulls have to sire beef calves more consistently than your competing breeds. [/QUOTE]
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