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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1739435" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>That depends on your appetite for spending money versus spending time and money.</p><p>Asking someone else what they would do means you're asking them, with their experience and years to put themselves in your place not knowing fully what your experience is.</p><p>It rarely works out. Apples to oranges.</p><p></p><p>The unknown is how much pasture you have, how many head you want to start with, if you will start with enough of either to justify keeping a bull all year long, if you have adequate fencing and facilities and a whole host of other unknowns.</p><p></p><p></p><p>IF, <u><strong>I </strong></u>were going to get into F1 Brafords <u>today</u>, (I'm not) I would go with older brahma cows (<u>not</u> heifers) already bred to a 'known' low bw polled hereford bull and probably would not buy them at a sale barn. Then, find an AI guy and have the cows AI'd next time around. Why? I'm limited to how many I have forage for without leasing pasture and limited to time in that I'm already pushing age 72.</p><p>Heifers are just a pain in the ass no matter what.</p><p></p><p>Nothing wrong with salebarn cattle but not a great idea for starting out or those with limited experience. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Back in the day, ('66 I think) my father, my twin and i started This place, with 3 registered polled Herefords bred to a Brahma bull. He bought them bred, from a breeder south of Baytown Texas over in Chambers County. Within 7 months they were resting in 3 nice mounded up graves for all of eternity, each with a dead calf either with them or hanging out of them. (we didn't live on this place , we lived 45 miles away and we checked them every few days) $$ down the drain. It was crossbreds from then on, with a registered bull for many years.</p><p> </p><p>I chose sim/char crosses, with a Char bull (bought someone else's herd) and full blood beefmasters using both a char bull or beefmaster bull. Pulled 2-3 calves in 10 years and lost only one of those..1st calf heifer.</p><p>Got my pastures leased now as we are trying to move back West and I am probably done with cows altogether.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1739435, member: 18945"] That depends on your appetite for spending money versus spending time and money. Asking someone else what they would do means you're asking them, with their experience and years to put themselves in your place not knowing fully what your experience is. It rarely works out. Apples to oranges. The unknown is how much pasture you have, how many head you want to start with, if you will start with enough of either to justify keeping a bull all year long, if you have adequate fencing and facilities and a whole host of other unknowns. IF, [U][B]I [/B][/U]were going to get into F1 Brafords [U]today[/U], (I'm not) I would go with older brahma cows ([U]not[/U] heifers) already bred to a 'known' low bw polled hereford bull and probably would not buy them at a sale barn. Then, find an AI guy and have the cows AI'd next time around. Why? I'm limited to how many I have forage for without leasing pasture and limited to time in that I'm already pushing age 72. Heifers are just a pain in the ass no matter what. Nothing wrong with salebarn cattle but not a great idea for starting out or those with limited experience. Back in the day, ('66 I think) my father, my twin and i started This place, with 3 registered polled Herefords bred to a Brahma bull. He bought them bred, from a breeder south of Baytown Texas over in Chambers County. Within 7 months they were resting in 3 nice mounded up graves for all of eternity, each with a dead calf either with them or hanging out of them. (we didn't live on this place , we lived 45 miles away and we checked them every few days) $$ down the drain. It was crossbreds from then on, with a registered bull for many years. I chose sim/char crosses, with a Char bull (bought someone else's herd) and full blood beefmasters using both a char bull or beefmaster bull. Pulled 2-3 calves in 10 years and lost only one of those..1st calf heifer. Got my pastures leased now as we are trying to move back West and I am probably done with cows altogether. [/QUOTE]
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