NZDan
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- Location
- Broomfield, New Zealand
The premium and bull choice with Angus is simply to much to ignore. About a 20% premium for Angus animals, plus you can buy damn near any bull you want, from huge high growth animals, to heavy muscled carcass bulls, fat easy doing Mama cow bulls, there is damn near an Angus bull that will do what any other bull will do.So in hill beef areas the cattle have changed over to Angus?
We'd be tempted to cross once then go back and forth as we run Angus on the farms anyway,
But our experience with the Angus is that they are fine in the fields but can't hack the moor like the hereford's when we've put the odd ones out.
Temperment is another problem with the Angus......they like chasing people with dogs! Our moor would easily be one of the most visited by people in the area.
On the plus side the Angus is a much more saleable animal round here, both store and finished