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Northeast ks | I have been breeding hereford cows with angus bulls and F1 baldies with angus bulls for a while. Really, I would rather have a good purebred horned Hereford heifer to breed to the Angus bull. The F1 baldies that I am keeping are somewhat smaller-framed, which I kind of like though. People are also saying pinkeye is worse with Herefords- which this year proves to be false for me.
I am pretty happy of the results I have had, and it sounds like you are too, so why change it?
Another story: My mom had this cow my brother and I called "The Mongrel". It was out of a purebred Gurensy bull and its mother was just a mix of stuff. Well, this cow has been way more productive than any Hereford, Angus, or Baldie of ours.
We bred this cow to an Angus bull and got a decent-looking black heifer. We then bred the black heifer to a Hereford bull and its calf looked no different from a Hereford for some reason. This Hereford-looking cow is probably our best- has small calves and never has needed help calving, and then it's calf ends up being the biggest at weaning. We have been breeding this cow to angus bulls and have got perfect black baldies- I think there are 4 BWF heifers so far we have kept.
I think this cow I'm talking about might be the perfect baldie because most of its genetics are from the Hereford and Angus- low birth weight, motherly instict, very efficient, and ablitiy to gain lbs. But.... that little bit of Guernsy in it gives it even more milk, which I think is the reason it weans big calves.
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