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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1845470" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Around here, many dairies are using Angus, Black Limousin, and black Simmental on the cows they are not using sexed dairy semen on... basically the bottom 50% or so of the milking herd. There are a few just using straight holstein semen, and on the farms that are not milking alot of cows (under 100 or so) they mostly have pretty good herd averages, so not as many get bred beef, because a replacement heifer even out of their "bottom end cows" will usually be pretty decent. </p><p>Years ago alot used an angus as a clean up bull, and back then the calves weren't worth what a straight holstein bull calf was worth... now they are worth nearly twice what a holstein bull calf is...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1845470, member: 25884"] Around here, many dairies are using Angus, Black Limousin, and black Simmental on the cows they are not using sexed dairy semen on... basically the bottom 50% or so of the milking herd. There are a few just using straight holstein semen, and on the farms that are not milking alot of cows (under 100 or so) they mostly have pretty good herd averages, so not as many get bred beef, because a replacement heifer even out of their "bottom end cows" will usually be pretty decent. Years ago alot used an angus as a clean up bull, and back then the calves weren't worth what a straight holstein bull calf was worth... now they are worth nearly twice what a holstein bull calf is... [/QUOTE]
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