Everyone wants to talk about Bill Gates getting rid of Cattle. If you som' bitches don't each your meat, my bulls will be in the unemployment line. I think they would rather just work, Hell if breeding was my job, I'ld take it pretty serious too.
PS. I haven't liked that Red Angus for years, He eats a ton and still won't hold condition, Looks like a steer. That's what happens when you buy a young bull based solely on numbers. Hopefully I can phase him out here pretty soon.

Those are some studs!

He will have work. No worries. Keep doing the good work. I’ve got 4 little ducks that eat beef like it’s a job.

Son Jake just added up what we've spent on bulls the last ten years.

"Bulls are half the herd"

Straight back but too bad he's the wrong color LJ.....grin

Story is, red's have better temperament?

Depends on the herd.

Mine are Black Angus. You know what they say...........once you go black, you never go back.

Only applies to cattle

Truth of that matter is. I'ld have nothing but Black baldies if we were going on looks, but I grew tired of them standing in the shade, humped up, slobbering, bad feet from the Black angus side. I'm hoping the reds will handle the heat, humidity, and toxic fescue better.


The angus breed has done a lot of work in the last 20 years to solve that.
2 of the 3 of these are a composite known as South Polls, I haven't even seen a cow get high headed in any of the herds I've toured. Very calm.

It's a regional thing.

Wanting to do some beefmaster bull on Angus heifers. And eat chitt bill

Ol' greg Judy would approve of that slick hide south pole. Good luck with them.

Nice bull LJB! I really like that one.






I let a Hereford in on my brangus cows... Calves are mostly black. Black baldy calves bring decent money down here. Surprisingly, white Brahman calves bring the most $$ through the ring here. The more floppy they are and humpy they are the more money they bring.

Not gonna raise 'em though. I doubt my pens are good enough...

Barry, I grew up with Polled Hereford cattle, as that's what we raised. For whatever the reason, you just don't see them around here much anymore, at least not in a commercial herd. The black baldy calves here do sell good, and you see quite a few of them. My bull is a registered Angus, the cows are all black, but most of them have some other breeds in their bloodline.

My next bull will most likely be something other than Black Angus. I'd just like to try something different. If I were starting over, I'd take a long look at those Red Angus that LJB showed us. But, they are a breed that doesn't seem to be very popular around here either.

Two thoughts.

I'm told the "Eared Cattle" can shake off bugs by wiggling their skin.

They have a thick hide.

South poll.


Not heard of that one.


Most bulls you buy these days are garbage.


Thin in the hips and shoulders.


Smaller than the cows. Barely fertile.


No milk...no maternal.

Feminine.

We gave up too much for the sake of "calving ease".

Yeah, the big selling point for most of them is "calving ease". Now, having said that, if you've ever lost a cow trying to have a big calf, or lost a calf because it was simply too big, then it is something to think about. But, as you say, bulls aren't supposed to be little bitty things.

Son Jake works many hours each year picking bulls. Again, "The eye of the master fattens the heard".

You Angus folks might look over Kenny Angus.

Angus is still the most common beefer here.

Belties and murray grays are popular with the smaller operations and at the locker plants.

Seems odd but holstein steer calves are rated highly at the locker plants, too...

I have both red and black Angus bulls. Their calves sell at the livestock exchange, what more can I say.

P.S. Charolais bulls have been in the herd, too.

Have a guy up the road that raises red angus. Buy one a year to fill up the deep freezers of mine and my mom. Averages about $3 a pound butchered.

Not my style of Angus. I looked hard at Ohlde, but they arent raised on fescue or heat. Seemed like an up hill battle.
Calvo family would be my next stop for Reds.



I have a Murray named Yogi in the AI tank. Along with several Herefords from this company.
https://www.sustainablegenetics.com/beef-sires/murray-grey/

All depends on what you are after.

This is jwp475s little pet.



dave

Thanks Dave
He is 3 1/2 in the photo. I cross on my Angus cattle adds immunity and low birth rates
He weighed 1200 pounds at 25 1/2 months

Those horns would look nice on the front of of a 1968 Cadillac.

Many hours? Thats what they make EPDs for. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree in Iowa either it seems.

In 1988, n Angus cow, number 149, had me on her back. I'm glad she was a poled breed. I retired that number for many years.

This is thread is really strange.

Had a neighbor's longhorn bull get in our cows one year out west of here...

Had 9 crossbred longhorns result from that.

Our cattle buyer had a sharp eye and cut them all out. Every single one.

Had to load those SOB's in the trailer and drive them over 100 miles to the sale barn, where they brought what longhorns generally bring through the sale ring....

Next year I had 5 calves that were longhorns. I just put them in a pen by IH10 and put a sign by the pens saying "Free Calves!"

Came back that afternoon, and I'll be damned if there weren't 8 head of longhorns in there!

(Kidding about the last part... but not about having to take the cut out ones to the sale.)

Time was when a cow needed horns to protect her calf.

Must have been a small bull. I cross mine on Angus and no one knows the difference

Longhorn beef is lower in fat and collestrol than white meat chicken

Yeah, it was a small bull. But tore the hell out of my pens before the owner came and got it.

Yeah, longhorns are lower in fat. But that's why they have an earned reputation for being tough. Some folks want fat on their beef for a reason.

I process and sell longhorn beef and it isn't tough as long as it isn't overcooked. Without the fat longhorn beef cooks faster and should be cooked on lower heat. I think it is the best tasting hamburger I've ever eaten