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| Jim, don't let the comments from the peanut gallery get you down. ;-)
I like your polled bulls, especially the one with more pigment around his eyes. I try to select for eye pigment and haven't had any pink eye or cancer eye for a long time. Rigid culling and selection for eye pigment goes a long way IMO.
My bull battery now includes one polled bull. I still favor the genetics of horned bulls. Like mentioned above, I believe there is a lot more selection of quality blood lines to choose from, but I hate having to deal with the horns.
If my calves are going to have horns, I hope they show up so they can be dealt with at branding time. Sometimes they don't if the calves have some polled or Angus blood in them. I don't like having to deal with horns later on in the fall when the calves are bigger to work with.
This spring I expect some nice baldy calves from my heifers, out of the first black Angus bull I've had in several years. Neighbor's red Angus got in and "helped out" last spring. Got 3 nice uniform all red steer calves out of him. Red must be quite dominant. One cow was black, one a baldy, and one kind of a smoky gray char.
I've been pleased with bulls I have purchased from these breeders. These links are outdated but the first one should be updated with this year's bull prospects soon.
Horned Herefords http://www.herefordamerica.com/cranston.html
Dehorned and Polled http://www.herefordamerica.com/hawks.html
Edited by John SD 1/7/2011 03:27
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crossing black angus cattle
