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Pure Angus cows, what bull?
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<blockquote data-quote="west coast angus" data-source="post: 436101" data-attributes="member: 2665"><p>Hi folks,</p><p> </p><p>We have ran a herd of 50 pure angus cows for about 15years, Its now up to me where the herd goes, now i am not going to rip the angus cows to bits they are doing a job, we are on hard hill ground in the highlands of scotland the cows outwinter and we sell calves store around 6 months old, bullocks avg £680 last year.</p><p>The problem is i feel we really need to inject some hybrid vigor, the cows are lacking milk big time!!! and not fleshing up in the summer the odd old cross cow we have is always fatter. Also the heifer calves dont sell well!</p><p> </p><p>So the Big question... What bull do you folk think??</p><p> </p><p>1) Simmy All ways wanted 1, what does the first cross look like? dun, rat tails?</p><p>2) Whitebred, would love to have some nice blue roan heifers but maybe the drop in bullock value not worth it?</p><p>3) Stabilizers, Like the idea but not seen any</p><p>4) Beef shorthorn could get a loan of a bull what colour would the calves be?</p><p>5) Angus, stick with what we know never calve them, very easy care ours are very docile, get back in calf well, Get the creep feeding into the calves!!</p><p> </p><p>Thank you for any help, bit of pressure on me to get this right!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="west coast angus, post: 436101, member: 2665"] Hi folks, We have ran a herd of 50 pure angus cows for about 15years, Its now up to me where the herd goes, now i am not going to rip the angus cows to bits they are doing a job, we are on hard hill ground in the highlands of scotland the cows outwinter and we sell calves store around 6 months old, bullocks avg £680 last year. The problem is i feel we really need to inject some hybrid vigor, the cows are lacking milk big time!!! and not fleshing up in the summer the odd old cross cow we have is always fatter. Also the heifer calves dont sell well! So the Big question... What bull do you folk think?? 1) Simmy All ways wanted 1, what does the first cross look like? dun, rat tails? 2) Whitebred, would love to have some nice blue roan heifers but maybe the drop in bullock value not worth it? 3) Stabilizers, Like the idea but not seen any 4) Beef shorthorn could get a loan of a bull what colour would the calves be? 5) Angus, stick with what we know never calve them, very easy care ours are very docile, get back in calf well, Get the creep feeding into the calves!! Thank you for any help, bit of pressure on me to get this right!! [/QUOTE]
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