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This entire discussion before I came in (12+ pages) was about how silly the black hereford people are and how it is not needed. I am not going to try to answer every tangent in the previous posts but I would like to summarize my arguement. Everyone agrees heterosis is great. Everyone recognizes...

I will happily stipulate that if you breed anything to a longhorn or beefmaster (and other multipatterned cattle) you can not garantee what you will get. But in two generations that problem can be solved. BUT... because of the HUGE price difference for black calves, most herds around me are...

RobertMac, what are you disagreeing with exactly? I know a black does not automatically mean a black calf it just increases the chance. As to the Beefmasters... My brother and I raised beefmasters for 10 years and loved them as to calving and health. I just got tired of losing 10 to 25% of the...

I should have qualified my statement by adding "commercially successful". The breeds you have listed are not commercially significant in that I am pretty sure they represent less than one percent of the American cattle herd collectively. Every breed seems to have its "purists". Look at a...

As to Gene pool, that is the beauty of the Black Hereford breed. I buy one bull and as many regular Hereford females as I want. The entire Hereford breed is my genetic base. Black is dominant so while I may be selecting for it, I don't have to cull good cows just to get black. Even the red...

Hello all, I am new here and ran across this link. I am a black hereford breeder and would like to respond to many of the comments made in this thread. Over and over again everyone points out that the market pays more for black cattle. Some of you state that one time you got as much for a red...