Question for Hereford Breeders

[cowsense]

Nicky; Don't sweat it ; I think they're just jealous :roll: :wink: :twisted:

 

[Nicky]

Probably :!: :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Hay cowsense I see their is a little herd of Galloways for sale at Wood Mountian. Want to go shares?

 

[Soapweed]

If a feller had a ranch and ran the wooly breed of cattle, he could call his outfit the "Go All the Way Galloway Ranch". Naw, it would be too much writing. :? :???: :wink:

 

[cowsense]

BMr; Pick them right up and if I like em I'll think about it.That deal would take more whiskey to justify than either me or you could handle ......but it sure would make for a bunch of dumbass stories!!

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I'll get right on it, next week. :wink: :cowboy:

 

[cowsense]

BMR-remember there's no such thing as being too "British" with your cows!!!Go all the Way!!! :twisted:

 

[Northern Rancher]

Buy them and breed them Hereford and then sell me the baldy heifers.

 

[cowsense]

BMR: Funny, but I know someone that can provide you with Hereford bulls!! Maybe you should bring your trailer up to Saskatoon!! :twisted:

 

[Soapweed]

Buy them and breed them Hereford and then sell me the baldy heifers.

So what would be the proper name of those F1 Galloway x Hereford heifers, Gallofords or Hereoways? Just curious. :wink:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

I wouldnt recommend Hereoway, cuz one minute they are here, the next they are away. Never know who's pasture your cows would end up in. :lol:

 

[Northern Rancher]

That's called innovative ways to extend your grazing acres-Jersey lol. Don't know whay you call them but they'd be tough little buggers.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

hmmmm I seem to have plenty innovative grazin neighbors....... :x

 

[shorthorn]

Shorthorn hereford cross now that is very british and very nice combination. Growing docile good eating calves.

 

[Nicky]

Wish the buyers (out here anyway) didn't discount the roan calves, they are dandies!

 

[smalltime]

Yes Nickey there is a perfect breed and i have seen it.

 

[shorthorn]

i got to looking at my calves in the feedlot today and they are all colors. They are going thru some rough weather with the ice and rain and cold but nothing is sick.I got to thinking about the crosses that i had. Last year at a sale at bluegrass stockyards in kentucky. I sold 28 shorthorn cross calves and 86 angus sired calves. The orange ( char/shorthorn) sold for .10 per pound more than the angus sired. The broken white face (hereford/short) sold for .10 to .15 cents per pound higher. The black black roans (angus/short) sold for .25 cents per pound more.I dont own an angus bull no more.The reason is a good angus bull that would sire calves that would bring as much as these crosses would cost me 10,000 dollors. I can buy a damn good shorthorn bull that is calving ease and solid red for half that or less. The calves will outgrow anything else or do as good as anything else. I dont have nothing against angus i love the cows and have quite a few but they can keep the bulls. The herefords i can take and throw them in a ceder thicket and that fall they will come out with a calf and they are both in good shape.Them old hereford cows are some motherin surviving good ole cows. What hurt the herefords was chasing the fads in the show rings. The days of a 1000 pound cow are about gone now we have these 1400+ pound cows that are high maintenance. I miss the old ones.THEY WAS A HECKUVA LOT MORE MONEY MADE WITH THAT TYPE OF COW THAN THE MONSTERS WE DEAL WITH NOW A DAYS IN ALL THE BREEDS. Hereford shorthorn cross or angus shorthorn cross cant beat it. F1 heifers good mothers best carcass hangin, easy keepin docile calves,heterosis on the hoof and all british!!!

Just my 2 cents!!!

 

[Nicky]

Shorthorn - I agree with you!
Smalltime - what's your 'perfect' breed?

 

[Faster horses]

Yea, I want to know the 'perfect breed', too.

As for Angus/Shorthorn, in W. Montana the biggest calves were from a man that had shorthorn base in his cows. The calves were black, but had roan hairs in the tail tassle. Those were great calves.

I've always liked the polled Shorthorn.

 

[jodywy]

we run Herefords base and use back , red angus and herford bulls. but we really have to watch the angus tsome still have a hard time with alititude .bad eyes are nothing compared to briskit deases in those angus.
We used goggled eyed and pigmented eyed Hereford bulls and hardly ever have an eye problem, did hack one out this fall..... also seem the Hereford bulls are up on top of the moutain with the cows while the black bulls are down in the willows...