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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1662746" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I was never a fan of Charolais, or Simmental, since they first came to GA in the early 70's ( back when SimmentaL were red & white) Too many people bred them to their Angus ( old time small framed angus) and Herefords, and lost too many cows and/or calves. So, I just never fooled with either of them through the years . However, as I have posted before, In the 2000's I started getting some F1 Brahma x Chianina cows from a customer, and I bred these to polled Charolais bulls. Best momma cows I ever had, and you could just about sit on the porch, look out in the pasture and see those calves grow! Might have gotten docked a few cents per pound on the steers, because they were white, but my God, a 5-6 month old was bigger than the 7-8 month olds that most people wean . And the heifers brought top dollar from people wanting them for replacements! The few I kept, I bred back to a Charolais, and most of THEIR heifers were sold before I weaned them. But, breeding Charolais cows to a Chi/Brahma bull would probably have different results. ( these were MINE, gcreekrch).</p><p></p><p> And a few months ago, I delivered a Brangus bull ( NOT mine, gbreekrch) to a place down in middle Ga, that I recognized as a registered Charolais farm I had been to in the 80s. His son and grandson were now breeding their ( I assume commercial) Charolais to registered Red Angus bulls. They retain all heifers, and their pasture was full of these polled, light red, to orange-ish blond cows, every bit as tall and big as their Charolais dams. They breed these Char-Red angus cows to a PP polled, BB black Simmental bull, and get black polled calves ,that sell for top dollar, both steers and heifers. The first calf, they breed these Char-RA to a Brangus , then black Simmental the rest of the time. Again, I am biassed toward black, but those Char-RA cows were as fine a looking cows as I have ever seen. and I damned sure wouldn't kick any of them out of My pasture. Nor any Chi-Brahmas. I have to go down close to this place for a few days in April, and I want to go by there then, because there will be some calves out of the Char-RA cows by the Brangus and Black Simmental bulls. There will be some RA- Char calves on the ground too. I will get some pics of both then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1662746, member: 40587"] I was never a fan of Charolais, or Simmental, since they first came to GA in the early 70's ( back when SimmentaL were red & white) Too many people bred them to their Angus ( old time small framed angus) and Herefords, and lost too many cows and/or calves. So, I just never fooled with either of them through the years . However, as I have posted before, In the 2000's I started getting some F1 Brahma x Chianina cows from a customer, and I bred these to polled Charolais bulls. Best momma cows I ever had, and you could just about sit on the porch, look out in the pasture and see those calves grow! Might have gotten docked a few cents per pound on the steers, because they were white, but my God, a 5-6 month old was bigger than the 7-8 month olds that most people wean . And the heifers brought top dollar from people wanting them for replacements! The few I kept, I bred back to a Charolais, and most of THEIR heifers were sold before I weaned them. But, breeding Charolais cows to a Chi/Brahma bull would probably have different results. ( these were MINE, gcreekrch). And a few months ago, I delivered a Brangus bull ( NOT mine, gbreekrch) to a place down in middle Ga, that I recognized as a registered Charolais farm I had been to in the 80s. His son and grandson were now breeding their ( I assume commercial) Charolais to registered Red Angus bulls. They retain all heifers, and their pasture was full of these polled, light red, to orange-ish blond cows, every bit as tall and big as their Charolais dams. They breed these Char-Red angus cows to a PP polled, BB black Simmental bull, and get black polled calves ,that sell for top dollar, both steers and heifers. The first calf, they breed these Char-RA to a Brangus , then black Simmental the rest of the time. Again, I am biassed toward black, but those Char-RA cows were as fine a looking cows as I have ever seen. and I damned sure wouldn't kick any of them out of My pasture. Nor any Chi-Brahmas. I have to go down close to this place for a few days in April, and I want to go by there then, because there will be some calves out of the Char-RA cows by the Brangus and Black Simmental bulls. There will be some RA- Char calves on the ground too. I will get some pics of both then. [/QUOTE]
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