Which Breed are These Cows?

[NewMoo]

I purchased this cow and cow/calf pair at auction last week. I have an idea of their breed, but I would like others’ opinions. Which breed(s) do you think they are?

 

[Hoover]

Randall it looks to me

 

[Logan52]

Longhorn or Cracker

 

[coachg]

Longhorn I’d say

 

[Lee VanRoss]

Interesting. Do you know the breeding or have the means to find out same? Having an idea, while entertaining, hardly qualifies
as fact. As much as I hate taking time away from haranguing the Liberals who troll these pages I will venture a guess and hopefully
kill two stones with one bird.
My guess is: Mother is a first generation Red Angus / Corriente cross i.e. 1/2 blood The calf is 3/4 Red Angus & 1/4 Corriente.
Photos can be deceiving so I am inclined to think the mother as too small for a longhorn.
The photo comment should serve as a warning to anyone considering a mail order bride.
In any case, even with no prize offered, I hope they turn you a nice profit.

 

[SBMF 2015]

White Park

 

[Travlr]

Yeah, I'll agree with SBMF 2015 about White Park (I call them English White) but crossed with longhorn. The calf looks 3/4 longhorn.

 

[Warren Allison]

Criolo 0f some sort: Corriente, Fla Scrub, Fla Cracker, Piney Woods or Longhorn. Or combinations thereof.

 

[MurraysMutts]

She looks like a thin Park to me.
Tho I suppose the angus could've knocked the horns off a longhorn cow and made her look like that.

The calf throws me off tho. I see skunk markings on char cross sometimes too

 

[WFfarm]

Lineback dairy cross

 

[farmerjan]

@NewMoo ... could you put a general area in your avatar? It might help to make an educated guess as to the breed(s) behind the cows.
From a dairy perspective I would say a lineback dairy cross also.. There is one dairy I test that has some lineback cattle but they have much more body than yours show, even for dairy cattle.
There are White park and crosses that have similar coloring.
I had a charolais/holstein cross that I raised from a calf, and bred angus. 50% of her calves had the "skunk stripe" as we call it. Pinzgauer cattle have that stripe. So knowing your general area might make a guess more accurate.

Neither show me the type head of a longhorn, but the colors could come from a longhorn or other criolo cross.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

I have longhorn descendants that look like both of the pair. the roany faced one may have something I don't have mixed in. (though that is a hard guess because we seem to have had just about everything mixed in at one time)

 

[Rafter S]

I know this one doesn't show any Brahman influence, but I had a Holtstein x Red Brahman years ago that was marked up just like that.

 

[NewMoo]

@NewMoo ... could you put a general area in your avatar? It might help to make an educated guess as to the breed(s) behind the cows.
From a dairy perspective I would say a lineback dairy cross also.. There is one dairy I test that has some lineback cattle but they have much more body than yours show, even for dairy cattle.
There are White park and crosses that have similar coloring.
I had a charolais/holstein cross that I raised from a calf, and bred angus. 50% of her calves had the "skunk stripe" as we call it. Pinzgauer cattle have that stripe. So knowing your general area might make a guess more accurate.

Neither show me the type head of a longhorn, but the colors could come from a longhorn or other criolo cross.

I’m in northern Alabama. They were purchased locally at sale.

 

[NewMoo]

Interesting. Do you know the breeding or have the means to find out same? Having an idea, while entertaining, hardly qualifies
as fact. As much as I hate taking time away from haranguing the Liberals who troll these pages I will venture a guess and hopefully
kill two stones with one bird.
My guess is: Mother is a first generation Red Angus / Corriente cross i.e. 1/2 blood The calf is 3/4 Red Angus & 1/4 Corriente.
Photos can be deceiving so I am inclined to think the mother as too small for a longhorn.
The photo comment should serve as a warning to anyone considering a mail order bride.
In any case, even with no prize offered, I hope they turn you a nice profit.

I’ve reached out to the previous owner. Hoping he calls me back to answer my questions.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I’ve reached out to the previous owner. Hoping he calls me back to answer my questions.

Hurtfords cause that color pattern will get you skinned at the sale barn.

 

[NewMoo]

She looks like a thin Park to me.
Tho I suppose the angus could've knocked the horns off a longhorn cow and made her look like that.

The calf throws me off tho. I see skunk markings on char cross sometimes too

It’s not visible in the photo. The roan-faced one has been dehorned.

 

[NewMoo]

Hurtfords cause that color pattern will get you skinned at the sale barn.

Living up to your name, I see. I happen to love these AND Herefords.

 

[Travlr]

It’s not visible in the photo. The roan-faced one has been dehorned.

Could be the roan one is milking shorthorn X longhorn.

 

[Down in Dixie]

Here is a cracker mixed heifer I have for comparison.