Salers

[Badlands]

"cattle are like people if they got long hair and nuts don't trust them"

ROTFL.

From what I have seen, there are good and bad disposition Salers bloodlines.

Some are fine, and some are not. Just so happened that some of the better showlines, and performance lines were bad disposition, so got propagated more in the earlier years.

Badlands

 

[S CO rancher]

When the Salers first hit this country I got a contract to AI the cowherd to them, and they would take all the halfblood heifers at steer price +$75 a head. Good money for the mid 80's. I kept 5 back to play with and breed up to purebred. Those halfblood calves were the hardest cattle to work that I have ever seen. When we got to 3/4 blood, one kept trying to bite me and would not give up even after being persuaded with a 2x4. This went on for the entire year. At least he was a steer so that gene stopped with him.

I stopped breeding them, said that when the cattle turn carnivorous it is time to get into a safer profession.

The worst I have ever been hurt in a breeding project was in a herd of purebred Salers, thank goodness they saw the handwriting on the wall and sold the herd completely out of the area.