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What bull to put on Santa Gertrudis x Hereford Cross Cows?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1690396" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I'm not all that big on Gerts either. The OP is though, so I was offering opinions on how best to use the Gerts. Honestly, the best brood cows in my opinion, are the F1 Brafords, and breed them to black bulls. Another viable option that a LOT of people need to look into, is buying up Brahmas and Herefords and start producing those f1 Br x Her. Trying to put together 150 quality f1 Brafords for my client has been trying, and here in the SE we have a lot of eared cattle. I have about a half a mind to talk him into doing just that: Buying Brahma and Hereford cows, and go into producing these f1s. I went this weekend to look at 60 Brahma heifers ( born Feb 2020) that were with Angus and Hereford bulls this May and June. Great looking bunch of heifers, all polled, mostly white/grey but some reds and red/black. The man didn't have any idea which were bred to Angus and which to Hereford bulls, though. Man asked $75k,,,$1250 each... for the lot. I am going to offer him $55k, and I got a feeling we can strike a deal at $60k...$1000 each. I would prefer then to be 2nd calf cows, but damn these are some sassy looking gals! Dude had them in a 80 acre pasture..no corral or pens or cross fences, with a pond in the middle and a small creek running through it. Grass was belly deep on them. He had called me Friday night and said he had been trying all week to lure them into a portable panel corral, ,but they wouldn't follow his side-by-side he was using to try to get them to follow him with range cubes. They would run away from his UTV or truck. I asked the man if he knew how to ride, and he did. Ended up he rode very well.. just didn't have any horses. I told him I'd come on Saturday, and I would bring him a horse, and we'd be able to ease up to them, ride through them, and look at them good. He had a Hereford bull, about 900-1000lbs in with them. So, I got him to help me, and we pushed the bull down the fence to the portable corral, and those heifers started running after us once we went out of sight down the hill! So, we were able to pen them, too. Ended up selling him the horse I brought for him to ride!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1690396, member: 40587"] I'm not all that big on Gerts either. The OP is though, so I was offering opinions on how best to use the Gerts. Honestly, the best brood cows in my opinion, are the F1 Brafords, and breed them to black bulls. Another viable option that a LOT of people need to look into, is buying up Brahmas and Herefords and start producing those f1 Br x Her. Trying to put together 150 quality f1 Brafords for my client has been trying, and here in the SE we have a lot of eared cattle. I have about a half a mind to talk him into doing just that: Buying Brahma and Hereford cows, and go into producing these f1s. I went this weekend to look at 60 Brahma heifers ( born Feb 2020) that were with Angus and Hereford bulls this May and June. Great looking bunch of heifers, all polled, mostly white/grey but some reds and red/black. The man didn't have any idea which were bred to Angus and which to Hereford bulls, though. Man asked $75k,,,$1250 each... for the lot. I am going to offer him $55k, and I got a feeling we can strike a deal at $60k...$1000 each. I would prefer then to be 2nd calf cows, but damn these are some sassy looking gals! Dude had them in a 80 acre pasture..no corral or pens or cross fences, with a pond in the middle and a small creek running through it. Grass was belly deep on them. He had called me Friday night and said he had been trying all week to lure them into a portable panel corral, ,but they wouldn't follow his side-by-side he was using to try to get them to follow him with range cubes. They would run away from his UTV or truck. I asked the man if he knew how to ride, and he did. Ended up he rode very well.. just didn't have any horses. I told him I'd come on Saturday, and I would bring him a horse, and we'd be able to ease up to them, ride through them, and look at them good. He had a Hereford bull, about 900-1000lbs in with them. So, I got him to help me, and we pushed the bull down the fence to the portable corral, and those heifers started running after us once we went out of sight down the hill! So, we were able to pen them, too. Ended up selling him the horse I brought for him to ride! [/QUOTE]
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