Well if they learned that then they really did get something out of it!
I always did like Charlais cattle. I still think nothing grows like a Char!
The first Char bull I ever used was on a herd of purebred hereford cows and those white faced buckskin calves were something else! Rang the bell at the mart for sure!
Now the trend is Angus! Which is okay because they've come a long way. I use some AI angus bulls on the heifers, but still go with a Char Or red Simmental on mature cows. Some of those old first cross Char/hereford cows were the best I've ever owned. Good feet,udders, milked well, good dispostions, very fertile, big, lived forever!
The bad thing I see with this Angus trend is that the commercial man is using Angus bulls again and again. This is not a good thing! If you are not cross breeding you are leaving one hell of a lot of money in the field! Or as my old AI instructor put it...You don't need to crossbreed if you inherited the farm and a million dollars, or if you have ten oil wells, but otherwise you'd better be crossbreeding!
I always did like Charlais cattle. I still think nothing grows like a Char!
The first Char bull I ever used was on a herd of purebred hereford cows and those white faced buckskin calves were something else! Rang the bell at the mart for sure!
Now the trend is Angus! Which is okay because they've come a long way. I use some AI angus bulls on the heifers, but still go with a Char Or red Simmental on mature cows. Some of those old first cross Char/hereford cows were the best I've ever owned. Good feet,udders, milked well, good dispostions, very fertile, big, lived forever!
The bad thing I see with this Angus trend is that the commercial man is using Angus bulls again and again. This is not a good thing! If you are not cross breeding you are leaving one hell of a lot of money in the field! Or as my old AI instructor put it...You don't need to crossbreed if you inherited the farm and a million dollars, or if you have ten oil wells, but otherwise you'd better be crossbreeding!
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