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Why no love for the Herefords?
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1607234" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>It is as much a "black hide" thing here as anything. Any color other than black will take a hit here, anything with dairy looks to it will get massacred, anything with an"ear" will also take a hit. The other thing is the "pinkeye" curse. It is generally thought that herefords, with their lighter pigmentation, will get pinkeye more often than any other color or combination. I don't see it in our commercial mixed bred cattle.....get eye problems in every color. We try to keep calves out of cows that seem to be resistant to both pinkeye and getting worms. Don't worm our adult cattle hardly ever unless they look like they need it....thinner, poor coats, runny manure more of the time, hard keepers..... and if they continue to seem to need it, they go. Had one family that all the calves got pinkeye, and although they grew good, and responded to treatment well, all the retained heifers tended to have calves susceptible. Finally sold all related to them and it cut our problems way down. </p><p></p><p>Herefords are supposed to have good to better ribeye than many of the black breeds, with better marbling. But they do tend to grow a little slower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1607234, member: 25884"] It is as much a "black hide" thing here as anything. Any color other than black will take a hit here, anything with dairy looks to it will get massacred, anything with an"ear" will also take a hit. The other thing is the "pinkeye" curse. It is generally thought that herefords, with their lighter pigmentation, will get pinkeye more often than any other color or combination. I don't see it in our commercial mixed bred cattle.....get eye problems in every color. We try to keep calves out of cows that seem to be resistant to both pinkeye and getting worms. Don't worm our adult cattle hardly ever unless they look like they need it....thinner, poor coats, runny manure more of the time, hard keepers..... and if they continue to seem to need it, they go. Had one family that all the calves got pinkeye, and although they grew good, and responded to treatment well, all the retained heifers tended to have calves susceptible. Finally sold all related to them and it cut our problems way down. Herefords are supposed to have good to better ribeye than many of the black breeds, with better marbling. But they do tend to grow a little slower. [/QUOTE]
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