per said:
Silver said:
MYT Farms said:
Black Angus is
always in style.

That's one reason I raise 'em.
Stick around :wink:
Maybe in your lifetime myt. I remember a time when you couldn't move a pen of blacks.
When I was a kid back around 1960, my old great uncle was talking about the differences between Herefords and Angus. He was around 70 years of age at the time, had retired, and was living in town. His sons were running straight Herefords then, as was my dad.
My great uncle (my grandmother's brother) said, "If you plan to sell calves right off their mother, Angus would be the best as they weigh better at weaning time. If you sell yearlings, the Herefords catch up and do just as well."
There were no other breeds around at that time, except for a very few Shorthorns.
Another of my old-time mentors summed up his evaluation of the difference between Herefords and Angus. He liked Herefords the best, and had cowboyed out in Nevada and Utah where grazing was limited and "challenged." He said, "Herefords are survivors. They can live on practically nothing. If the going gets really tough, the cow will abandon her calf but save herself. Then the 'factory' has been saved, and she will have a calf again the next year."
He went on to say, "Angus can't live on as little as Herefords can. Angus cows are too good of mothers. They will try to save both themselves and their calves, and when the grazing is really bad, they will both perish."
He didn't like Angus bulls either, because they didn't stay scattered. He liked horned Hereford bulls, but I don't think he would have liked polled Hereford bulls for the same reason he didn't like Angus.
Just thought I'd throw this in the fray. :wink:
