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Northern Rancher

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Nice when one of the solid old cows spits out a heifer calf to replace herself with-this is probably the cow that has made us the most grid premiums-she's raisded a few Prime Y1's. This was supposed to be a bull calf to keep for a heifer bull but I'll settle for a Lad heifer calf.
 

Grassfarmer

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I'm interested NR - how would that cow be bred? I bought a bunch looking pretty much like that a while back and they have been excellent cows to. Is that what you get by breeding a baldy back to a horned hereford? The ones I bought always looked a bit scrawny but reared some of the best calves year in year out and bred back.
Your grass looks good - it's just about stalled out growing here the last couple of days - cold, windy and no rain. We need heat badly and moisture too but we don't need overcast cold, dry days!
 

Northern Rancher

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That cow is fourteen and is 3/4 Horned Hereford and 1/4 Longhorn-sometimes you get rednecks breeding hereford back on baldies sometimes you get black baldies or even straighht Hereford looking calves. That grass they're on is a 23 year old stand of quackgrass-it opriginally had some Alfalfa in it but drought and poor management kind of did the alfalfa on. Were getting that high desert weather here too.
 

Grassfarmer

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Here is one old cow from that group - many of the others had the exact pattern of your cow NR, the spreckle faces, stumpy horns and a slimmer look than the rest of the herd. This old girl was a mid aged dispersal cow when I bought her in the fall of '01 so she has got to be 13+. Apart from the first year when she was bred black she has had a char x steer every year. Always been in my top steer pen and one went for a 4H project, always excellent conformation but to look at her you wonder where it came from. She has really badly grown hind feet and no teeth so she is a cull this year. This picture actually flatters her - she is worse in the flesh! I can't imagine she was ever pretty as a heifer but it just shows how little that has to do with being a successful cow.
 

Faster horses

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The Padlock crossbred (3-way) some cows for a number of years that look
like the cows nr and grassfarmer posted. Golly, I'm not sure what they
were. Perhaps Hereford, Red Angus and Shorthorn.

I've always said if you have an ugly cow in your herd, she's there
for a good reason.

When we ran Herefords, I always thought the best ones had
freckles on their faces.
 

Denny

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Faster horses said:
The Padlock crossbred (3-way) some cows for a number of years that look
like the cows nr and grassfarmer posted. Golly, I'm not sure what they
were. Perhaps Hereford, Red Angus and Shorthorn.

I've always said if you have an ugly cow in your herd, she's there
for a good reason.

When we ran Herefords, I always thought the best ones had
freckles on their faces.

Were running a 1/2 hereford 1/2 shorthorn bull on our commercial cows this spring.Looking for 1/2 angus 1/4 shorthorn 1/4 hereford replacement's.

A neighbor had a bunch of brockel faced cows like that they were 1/2 shorthorn 1/2 hereford.Good cow's but that was 20 years ago now.
 

Northern Rancher

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Well I'm kind of a 'pretty is as pretty does' kind of guy-I guess if a cow with a nice wide muzzle, good spring of rib and a good feet and udder is ugly I'm hooped. Here mother o the other hand was a bit colorful-I remember the day this cow was born-I saw an old Longhorn cross cow drop a calf-rode over to see what it was then I rode back to the yard-only a mile-to make up a tag. When I got back she had already got the calf up and was a half mile away making tracks. I do know if I had a whole herd like this one I'd do ok in the business.
 

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