Ky hills
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In building on the recent "black Hereford" thread, I thought I'd show some pictures of some calves that we have had over the last 3 years. I've probably posted these pictures before but in different contexts.
I'm not bashing Herefords or even "black Herefords" We love Hereford cattle, they are my wife's favorite and as for me well I just like cattle in general. Reality is though that in my opinion if unless you just want Hereford marked type cattle Herefords regardless of color are going to have a possibility of quite a bit of chrome when both Hereford bulls and Hereford and Hereford X cows are used in a herd.
We've had quite a few Hereford cows some registered and have used some Hereford bulls as well as a BWF bull that was only 25% Hereford, the other 75% was Angus. He was from registered stock of both breeds.
He was conservatively marked in my opinion like most BWF are, but the white in his genetics even at his low percent of Hereford would still come shining through in some calves. It was kind of the luck of the draw so to speak one year a particular cow would have a fairly solid calf with white face and another calf another year might have white legs up all the way to it's body and white stripe down the neck etc. Nothing wrong with the calves themselves, we actually liked them, but the folks at the stockyards saw Holstein cross and would pull them out of the group and get 30 cents less for those calves even black ones, when in reality they were the exact same genetics as the more solid colored red or black calves.
Here's the bull the first two calves are by.
The first BWF calf sired by the pictured bull and a 3/4 Hereford cow that was sired by a very conservative marked registered Hereford bull. the next RWF calf is from a purebred Hereford cow.
The last picture, the front calf is from a BWF heifer and a registered Hereford bull. As you can tell that calf has a little more white than the Angus sired BWF calves. The mottled face calf behind her is from a BWF cow and a registered Angus bull, the calf standing looking from behind them is a true F1 BWF by the registered Angus bull, calf is conservative marked king of like the second one except a solid white face.




I'm not bashing Herefords or even "black Herefords" We love Hereford cattle, they are my wife's favorite and as for me well I just like cattle in general. Reality is though that in my opinion if unless you just want Hereford marked type cattle Herefords regardless of color are going to have a possibility of quite a bit of chrome when both Hereford bulls and Hereford and Hereford X cows are used in a herd.
We've had quite a few Hereford cows some registered and have used some Hereford bulls as well as a BWF bull that was only 25% Hereford, the other 75% was Angus. He was from registered stock of both breeds.
He was conservatively marked in my opinion like most BWF are, but the white in his genetics even at his low percent of Hereford would still come shining through in some calves. It was kind of the luck of the draw so to speak one year a particular cow would have a fairly solid calf with white face and another calf another year might have white legs up all the way to it's body and white stripe down the neck etc. Nothing wrong with the calves themselves, we actually liked them, but the folks at the stockyards saw Holstein cross and would pull them out of the group and get 30 cents less for those calves even black ones, when in reality they were the exact same genetics as the more solid colored red or black calves.
Here's the bull the first two calves are by.
The first BWF calf sired by the pictured bull and a 3/4 Hereford cow that was sired by a very conservative marked registered Hereford bull. the next RWF calf is from a purebred Hereford cow.
The last picture, the front calf is from a BWF heifer and a registered Hereford bull. As you can tell that calf has a little more white than the Angus sired BWF calves. The mottled face calf behind her is from a BWF cow and a registered Angus bull, the calf standing looking from behind them is a true F1 BWF by the registered Angus bull, calf is conservative marked king of like the second one except a solid white face.



