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| WHAT IS THE BEST BULL TO PUT ON LONG HORN COWS OR CORRIENTE COWS ????THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.... |
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S.E. LA. | What are you going to do with calf? Do you want the horns? Are you going to keep the heifers and raise to cows? |
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| sell the calves at market
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| I think step one would be to get rid of the longhorn and corriente cows if you are raising beef cattle. |
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northwest tennessee | Keith has some longhorns and it seems like a Charlois bull works best but you still need to sell the calves before they get much age or they will show the longhorn and get docked pretty good. You can put a pretty thick Char. on them too. |
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Central Texas | +1 on the charlais bull. In my area a longhorn x char cross calf will outsell any other longhorn cross. Doesn't knock all the longhorn spotted coloring out but there is little doubt that it is part char. |
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| charlais hard to beat, knew a guy that used big and I mean big, black limousine bulls claimed they put more hip muscle on the calves. |
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North Mo. | Wrong idea those are easy keeping cows, just use a thick angus bull sell light take some dock but not much |
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S.E. LA. | I have a number of LH x AN and LH xBR, the spots will always show. I heard the other day that a fellow in the west was using a South Poll on Long Horn and was taking the spots off and adding hip. Never seen it just read an article on it. I have bred a Spotted LHxAN heifer to the South Poll this season so won't know until Late Jan.'14. They dock them heavy here, I have sold the last one, I will eat them from now on. They are a great Forage cow and have good milk always wean heavy calf, just spotted. Good luck and good grazing |
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Breckinridge Co. , Kentucky | If you dig back, I had pictures of the CharolaisXLonghorn cows and calves that I had. Some calves had no spots some had spots but they were well fleshed and the cows were great mommas. Did not like to be split off from each other and would go over or thru fence to get back together. If I had the time and set up right, I would like to run a herd again. |
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| Agree with the Char the calves look great but I haven't seen any bigger than probably 500 lbs. I have heard the longhorn starts to show up in them as they get bigger but I don't know if that is true or not. Here is a link to some discussion http://www.cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=49051 if it works.
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northwest tennessee | That is the problem I have with longhorns. They can waste more feed and hay and tear up more stuff than any cows I have ever seen. They are one more reason that I dont need to pack a pistol around with me. |
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LONG HORN AND CORRIENTE COW QUESTION
