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<blockquote data-quote="Rustler9" data-source="post: 269055" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>I've never understood and I guess I never will the mentality of folks who'd rather breed their heifers to a high birth weight bull and take chances as to whether the heifer and/or her calf makes it. If there's so many low birth weight beef bulls out there, then why don't more people use them? I would still rather have a live calf that I can market even if it does get docked by the cattle rustlers at the barn than to have a dead heifer or calf. I just don't see how that adds up to any type of profit. Plus, I like my stock enough to not stress them out any more than need be. Yes, I know the cattle industy thinks it has to be black and polled but a Charolais crossed on a Longhorn will make as much money as a black calf. I've seen it done, it happens all the time and it will continue to happen. Polled Char bull on Longhorns cows=big, yellow calves that will more than pay for their mamas in one season. I knew when this post was started that the Longhorn breed would get bashed as it always does. But that's ok. Again, I will never understand someone who's too stubborn to breed those first calf heifers (no matter what breed they are) to a Longhorn bull to get a live calf that will definitely make more money than the one that got dragged off to the ditch. Longhorns will never gain in popularity like the beef breed____________ (insert your breed of choice that's been turned black-and on no there was no Angus added to the wood pile, they just naturally evolved into blackness) but I just wonder what everyone will do when the black fad goes away. The cattle market is so trendy and breed popularity comes and goes. Don't you thnk it will cahnge again?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rustler9, post: 269055, member: 440"] I've never understood and I guess I never will the mentality of folks who'd rather breed their heifers to a high birth weight bull and take chances as to whether the heifer and/or her calf makes it. If there's so many low birth weight beef bulls out there, then why don't more people use them? I would still rather have a live calf that I can market even if it does get docked by the cattle rustlers at the barn than to have a dead heifer or calf. I just don't see how that adds up to any type of profit. Plus, I like my stock enough to not stress them out any more than need be. Yes, I know the cattle industy thinks it has to be black and polled but a Charolais crossed on a Longhorn will make as much money as a black calf. I've seen it done, it happens all the time and it will continue to happen. Polled Char bull on Longhorns cows=big, yellow calves that will more than pay for their mamas in one season. I knew when this post was started that the Longhorn breed would get bashed as it always does. But that's ok. Again, I will never understand someone who's too stubborn to breed those first calf heifers (no matter what breed they are) to a Longhorn bull to get a live calf that will definitely make more money than the one that got dragged off to the ditch. Longhorns will never gain in popularity like the beef breed____________ (insert your breed of choice that's been turned black-and on no there was no Angus added to the wood pile, they just naturally evolved into blackness) but I just wonder what everyone will do when the black fad goes away. The cattle market is so trendy and breed popularity comes and goes. Don't you thnk it will cahnge again? [/QUOTE]
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