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<blockquote data-quote="Northern Rancher" data-source="post: 604592" data-attributes="member: 5898"><p>Nothing warms a ranchers heart more than reading about 120 pound Hereford calves-especially if he has a pen of Angus bulls needs selling. I ranch in the heaviest concentration of cattle in Saskatchewan-if you draw a 75 mile circle around our place there are probably 100,000 mother cows. Twenty five or thirty years ago Herefords and especially Polled Herefords probably bred over half those cows-I bet they'd be lucky to breed 5 percent now. Most guys up here if they wanted a Hereford cow to have a big calf with explosive growth used a Charolais or Fleckvieh Simmental bull on her. Trying to turn Herefords into Simmentals has almost caused their complete demise in ranch country-I don't know of any big outfit in my area running polled herefords a few still run Horned. We calve out on grass-cows that can't calve end up sliding out the north end of a south bound coyote-I don't know much but I bet the rate of gain and profit potential on a 80lb live calf is better than a 125 lber that we dragged to the s...pile because his momma couldn't have him. We have some cows that have big calves but I sure don't look for it and those heifers get fed out. Herefords strength in their glory days was efficient cows that could take care of themselves and raise a profitable calf-there's some still out there but you have to look hard to find them. Our cows have enough challenges taking care of business on forage alone-breeding them to some overpromoted behemouth shouldn't be one of them. I do alot of custom heifer A'I' nothing chills my blood more than a customer with a bunch of big BW heifers to breed-picking a bull that will calve on them is a crapshoot at best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northern Rancher, post: 604592, member: 5898"] Nothing warms a ranchers heart more than reading about 120 pound Hereford calves-especially if he has a pen of Angus bulls needs selling. I ranch in the heaviest concentration of cattle in Saskatchewan-if you draw a 75 mile circle around our place there are probably 100,000 mother cows. Twenty five or thirty years ago Herefords and especially Polled Herefords probably bred over half those cows-I bet they'd be lucky to breed 5 percent now. Most guys up here if they wanted a Hereford cow to have a big calf with explosive growth used a Charolais or Fleckvieh Simmental bull on her. Trying to turn Herefords into Simmentals has almost caused their complete demise in ranch country-I don't know of any big outfit in my area running polled herefords a few still run Horned. We calve out on grass-cows that can't calve end up sliding out the north end of a south bound coyote-I don't know much but I bet the rate of gain and profit potential on a 80lb live calf is better than a 125 lber that we dragged to the s...pile because his momma couldn't have him. We have some cows that have big calves but I sure don't look for it and those heifers get fed out. Herefords strength in their glory days was efficient cows that could take care of themselves and raise a profitable calf-there's some still out there but you have to look hard to find them. Our cows have enough challenges taking care of business on forage alone-breeding them to some overpromoted behemouth shouldn't be one of them. I do alot of custom heifer A'I' nothing chills my blood more than a customer with a bunch of big BW heifers to breed-picking a bull that will calve on them is a crapshoot at best. [/QUOTE]
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