JHH":2gnm6d6d said:
Andyva":2gnm6d6d said:
I'll join your Hereford bashing thread. Why are Herefords good? Keeping your pinkeye medicine rotated out. Seriously, though, you have to understand that even though raising cattle is a great way to MAKE money, its also an even better way of losing money. Sometimes people need to show a loss. With todays prices it can be tough. You breed Hereford, retain heifers, sell discounted steers, show a loss, but when your ready to make money, you breed all of those heifers to a black bull. While some people are raising cattle as a second job to help make ends meet, other people are raising cattle so that they can lose money on paper, while not really going in the hole. Realizing this will make it easier to understand why some people are in the cattle business and why they do things the way they do. In the end it comes down to personal preference, no point in feeding something you hate looking at.
The pink eye thing is a myth. Also the way you market something has a lot to do with how well you do. LOL really buying a Hereford so you can show a loss.?
Have seen several black bulls tear more fence up in one day than you can fix in a week. Take that for your loss. I guess its like you said what you prefer looking at.
I will agree 100% pinkeye is a fly management problem.
You can just see it on the Herefords earlier than the black ones.
I don't like Angus cows tried them kinda like the little boy that kissed the calf on the butt.
Everyone to their own taste. I would rather try to have kept goats penned.
Tree fall on the fence they would be a jail break all the Bradford and Herefords would be standing in the pasture. Last two I had one morning I went up to the barn there were two Angus cows standing in the woods
said dam neighbors are out again. Looked again at the ear tags and they were mine. :shock:
Found a tree on the fence when I got them back in the pasture and the fence repaired.
Penned them that weekend and hauled them to the barn.