What breed am I?

[regolith]

Fence was on. That's one clever calf - just look at her back. Most of them just run straight through and bellow if they hit it. Brave cow too, in the next photo in the sequence the calf is still in that position and they're touching noses.

Yup, 236 is *much* uglier than that in real life. She's over a year older now and I think she got brushed up and put on her prettiest face for the camera that day.

 

[Lawson Farms]

We quick milking a couple of years ago and are transitioning from Holstein to Angus. We're going to have about 50 100%AI holsteins bred to black angus bulls. We've also got about 60 black angus females. Am I asking for trouble from the holstein side? Or can I just keep using good bulls / AI to move on?

 

[AllForage]

Lawson,

Wouldn't you be money ahead to sell the holsteins heifers for dairy prices and then go buy some beef cattle? Or AI the group back to holstein and sell them as springers. I thought around here they were going for around $1800 a head. You could buy a whole lot more beefers going that way.

The guy by me that was breeding up was only using probably local 1500 dollar bulls and probably too larged framed anyway. They are nasty though when penned up.

 

[TexasBred]

We quick milking a couple of years ago and are transitioning from Holstein to Angus. We're going to have about 50 100%AI holsteins bred to black angus bulls. We've also got about 60 black angus females. Am I asking for trouble from the holstein side? Or can I just keep using good bulls / AI to move on?

Lawson don't know where you're located but down here a holstein/brahman cross makes one hel of a cow.

 

[Lawson Farms]

We've had trouble finding people around here with good money to buy the $1800 holstein springers.

 

[Lawson Farms]

We also hit a bad AI spell and cleaned up with a bull that threw some big big calves. I didn't want to give anyone trouble, so we've kept them and sold them a few at a time. Those holsteins that have stayed around are now all exposed to a BA bull.

 

[spear B]

Run a good beefy angus bull on her and youll get a fast growing beefy black out of her. i have a few like that.

 

[mrvictordomino]

We quick milking a couple of years ago and are transitioning from Holstein to Angus. We're going to have about 50 100%AI holsteins bred to black angus bulls. We've also got about 60 black angus females. Am I asking for trouble from the holstein side? Or can I just keep using good bulls / AI to move on?

While I am not an extremest, I would use the thickest, smaller framed BA bulls on those Holsteins for next few
generations. You will make good progress in converting to a beef herd. If the wrong bulls are used, you will be
looking at a solid black Holstein looking animal several years from now.

 

[High Cotton]

We've had trouble finding people around here with good money to buy the $1800 holstein springers.

What does "springer" mean?

 

[ALACOWMAN]

We quick milking a couple of years ago and are transitioning from Holstein to Angus. We're going to have about 50 100%AI holsteins bred to black angus bulls. We've also got about 60 black angus females. Am I asking for trouble from the holstein side? Or can I just keep using good bulls / AI to move on?

While I am not an extremest, I would use the thickest, smaller framed BA bulls on those Holsteins for next few
generations. You will make good progress in converting to a beef herd. If the wrong bulls are used, you will be
looking at a solid black Holstein looking animal several years from now.

thats the way i see it,, if your trying to put out a raging house fire you wont get to far... carrying more than a bucket of water at a time,

 

[VanC]

We've had trouble finding people around here with good money to buy the $1800 holstein springers.

What does "springer" mean?

It means she is close to calving.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

ive heard springer being either struted teats to dialeted vulva

 

[High Cotton]

Ah ha I have never heard it before. I was just wondering because that's my last name. I guess there's worse things to have you name mean lol.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

when i was younger when folks said shes ""springing"" i thought it meant..... shes gonna calve in the spring.....years ago an old cattle and horse trader that just bought a few heifers...and was gonna sell em bred said,, gotta buy me a little ""peach orchard bull"" to breed em to... still aint figured that one out,, unless he meant criptorchid

 

[VanC]

when i was younger when folks said shes ""springing"" i thought it meant..... shes gonna calve in the spring.....years ago an old cattle and horse trader that just bought a few heifers...and was gonna sell em bred said,, gotta buy me a little ""peach orchard bull"" to breed em to... still aint figured that one out,, unless he meant criptorchid

I used to think the same thing. Used to be an old boy around here that would say "that boys lazier than a peach orchard bull." Still don't know what it means.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

might be something to the saying ...... but me and my BIL laughed our ass's off afterward :cowboy: