I am putting a Hereford in with some straight black cows next spring.He's actually 1/2 hereford 1/2 shorthorn I AI'ed an old shorthorn cow I have to a horned hereford.I have alot of daughter's and grand daughters of the cow and they are all real productive.It may seem odd to do this but I figure it's no differet than breeding cross bred cows to straight bred bulls I'm just doing it backwards.I want replacement heifers from this cross but I did'nt want more than a 1/4 shorthorn in them trying to regulate the Roan color the 1/2 bloods carry.

The biggest problem with useing a hereford bull on baldy type cows and crossbreds is the redneck or hereford looking calves they sort them off at the sale and generally bring 10 to 15 cents less than the black hided calves thats why we quit useing hereford bull's 10 years ago.Now we have alot of straight black cows so we can try it again.

The baldy and redneck cows we have from our 1st hereford bull are 10 years old this year all have nice tight udders with small teats. We only had 10 of them but this year we culled one of them all the rest have calves on them and are doing fine.