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What's hybrid vigor? This baby is PUREBRED ANGUS!
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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1592245" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>I'm going to hate myself for commenting about this but oh well, I say a lot useless crap anyway.</p><p>To reiterate what others have said no one is denying the performance of BH's Angus. Crossbred is not always a negative term, and does not always mean a low quality animal. Just a hypothetical scenario, as it does not make sense for a successful registered outfit to convert to crossbred unless that is a desired goal for some reason. I would suspect that if BH were to AI an average or low end cow if he has one to a bull of a different breed then the resulting calf just might perform on par or better than its purebred herd mates under the same management. Again just hypothetical, don't want him to slip a cog. May even get a good recipient cow out of the cross. Some of the Hereford folks might slip a cog at this too, but we bred a registered Angus cow to the Hereford THM Durango, I think that is the prefix. She had a heifer calf that is as deep bodied and thick as any cow we have ever had, and was the largest heifer calf weaned that year, literally on par with the bull calves in size. I believe cows like her would make some good recips. </p><p>I like crossbred cows, but for my preference in a commercial program, I have come to prefer straight bred or at least high percentage of one breed cows, bred to a bull of a different breed. My reasoning is that the crossbred cows are likely a little more high maintenance, because usually a little bigger and heavier milking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1592245, member: 24816"] I'm going to hate myself for commenting about this but oh well, I say a lot useless crap anyway. To reiterate what others have said no one is denying the performance of BH's Angus. Crossbred is not always a negative term, and does not always mean a low quality animal. Just a hypothetical scenario, as it does not make sense for a successful registered outfit to convert to crossbred unless that is a desired goal for some reason. I would suspect that if BH were to AI an average or low end cow if he has one to a bull of a different breed then the resulting calf just might perform on par or better than its purebred herd mates under the same management. Again just hypothetical, don't want him to slip a cog. May even get a good recipient cow out of the cross. Some of the Hereford folks might slip a cog at this too, but we bred a registered Angus cow to the Hereford THM Durango, I think that is the prefix. She had a heifer calf that is as deep bodied and thick as any cow we have ever had, and was the largest heifer calf weaned that year, literally on par with the bull calves in size. I believe cows like her would make some good recips. I like crossbred cows, but for my preference in a commercial program, I have come to prefer straight bred or at least high percentage of one breed cows, bred to a bull of a different breed. My reasoning is that the crossbred cows are likely a little more high maintenance, because usually a little bigger and heavier milking. [/QUOTE]
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