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Charolais

IluvAltaBeef

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This is probably a part of the "stupid question" category that sometimes gets asked, but I'll ask anyway. (Pssst: I'm bored right now)

Is it true that the majority of purebred Charolais (or even F1 or crossbreeds) are highstrung and nervous simply because of their skin colour?

Or is it just me and my biased opinion of Char cattle (not a real fan of the breed, btw, no offence to those of you who are). Or is this just one thing among others that can be used to judge an animal's nuerological-problem thingies?

Just curious.
 

Mike

Well-known member
IluvAltaBeef said:
This is probably a part of the "stupid question" category that sometimes gets asked, but I'll ask anyway. (Pssst: I'm bored right now)

Is it true that the majority of purebred Charolais (or even F1 or crossbreeds) are highstrung and nervous simply because of their skin colour?

Or is it just me and my biased opinion of Char cattle (not a real fan of the breed, btw, no offence to those of you who are). Or is this just one thing among others that can be used to judge an animal's nuerological-problem thingies?

Just curious.

I've never noticed Chars being high-strung or nervous. But then again I am biased.

Neurological Problems? Because of skin color? Have you been drinking? :wink:
 

TimH

Well-known member
Mike said:
IluvAltaBeef said:
This is probably a part of the "stupid question" category that sometimes gets asked, but I'll ask anyway. (Pssst: I'm bored right now)

Is it true that the majority of purebred Charolais (or even F1 or crossbreeds) are highstrung and nervous simply because of their skin colour?

Or is it just me and my biased opinion of Char cattle (not a real fan of the breed, btw, no offence to those of you who are). Or is this just one thing among others that can be used to judge an animal's nuerological-problem thingies?

Just curious.

I've never noticed Chars being high-strung or nervous. But then again I am biased.

Neurological Problems? Because of skin color? Have you been drinking? :wink:

Sounds almost like some kind of bizzare bovine version of racial profiling......and profiling is just plain wrong. :D
 

Texan

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IluvAltaBeef said:
Is it true that the majority of purebred Charolais (or even F1 or crossbreeds) are highstrung and nervous simply because of their skin colour?
I've owned some Char cattle off and on for over thirty years. I've never noticed them being more highstrung than any of the other breeds. In fact, the Char bulls I'm running right now are some of the best dispositioned bulls that I've ever owned. And their calves out of Brahman-cross cows are even better.

The modern Charolais of today isn't the head-thrower or snot-blower that some people would have you believe. Nor is it the big-headed, rough-shouldered, cow-killer of the 70's. Give them a try and see for yourself. In a crossbreeding program with English or Brahman-cross cows, you're leaving money on the table if you don't.
 

Shortgrass

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I've raised em for 25 plus years. They, like other cattle can get high headed or they can be very calm. I've noticed a difference in handling exotics over the British breeds. I think that often the flight zone is less on Herfords or Angus. The wildest most deer like cow that ever ate any of my feed was a Herford. You drove her from about 1/4 to 1/2 mile off. She didn't eat very much of my feed, though, until she found her way back to the Sale Barn. My Chars handle pretty good or so it seems to me. Remember that you don't have to raise Charolais, but you do have to compete with producers who do!!
 

IluvAltaBeef

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Okay, well maybe it's just me then...I have a biased opininon on the char steers because the ones that we have gotten (like last year's bunch) were a bit high strung and as ornery as anything.

I gotta go, got class right now.
 
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