White Parks/British Whites

[Hippie Rancher]

bought a bull on a whim, hide screams longhorn, conformation is pretty much angus. wonder how they cross with other colors. white/light/speckled would be good in heat here, but buyers sure don't like anything other than solid no matter what the carcass is going to look like.

 

[sassafras manor]

We have a White Park cow that was born in the fall of 2010 and hasn't missed a calf since she had her first calf in the spring of 2013. Regardless of what she has been bred to (Hereford or Angus) her calves are 100 lbs heavier than their counterparts and sell well for us locally. She was bred Angus last year and had her first white heifer calf so that calf will be kept as her future replacement.

 

[tburkepa]

Like sassafras said, my White Park's will raise bigger calves than their counterparts. Downside is that they have been bigger calves and you might have calving issues. My neighbor had a white park bull and pulled a lot of calves his first season with him. (I know that the bull is only half the equation...) I have 5 white park and white park crosses and 4 out of 5 had heifers this year and I'll be keeping all of them. The coloring is hard to breed out of them and majority will have the white body with black points. They are cute calves and will bring good money for the hobby farmers that like this...

 

[farmerjan]

My longhorn is mostly all white with some black speckles... she is my pasture ornament... have a pure black heifer ( one of twins, other one died) that is being bred now. Had a white bull calf with the black points, last year and is a CHUNK, looks like a white park... he will be beef for me next year. I have always killed a jersey or jersey cross for beef the last 30 years. This year she has a black bull calf... Her calves will wean off at 4-450 easy and she doesn't weigh 850 with her horns. We use good black bulls, and she has had 2 "white" calves, and now 4 black calves in 5 calvings... and has backed up over 6 months until this year that we now are putting in the bulls and pulling them at this pasture with the breeding heifers. Used to use this pasture to keep a bull at simply because there was extra grass and it was a "catchall" for some different cattle.
So, yeah you might take a hit on the calves for color, but our black bulls have thrown more black than white on her coloring; however, since your bull is colored, my guess is you will get lots of color...