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wow? I am shocked by that. How old to ranchers usually keep a cow going? I was thinking 10-12 years...never 20. WOW!

love the thread: 1: maybe some shorthorn, or a hereford/char/sim cross? 2: char or char cross 3: red angus/angus cross, maybe some guernsey?

Ok, I was thinking a Dexter heifer or a cow and getting a few straws from a hereford bull. Then after reading this last night night, I started thinking I needed to change to mini hereford bull over a few dexter ladies. Now, I am thinking about a few older pulled hereford cows and doing the cross...

Yes, I agree, however wouldn't the calf be 1/2 Dexter and be smaller. Can you get a baldie out of any other breed but a hereford?

Could someone buy a few dexter heifers and cross them with a polled hereford bull and get some little Dexter Baldie calves? Anyone? Pictures? I was just thinking about that in bed last night.

good stuff.....pick up a few young steers and heifers....sell off the steers and/or put some beef in the frig. Have my buddy do some AI's on the heifers and pick up a few more steers while I wait? Sounds great!

when you say "stocker" are you sayin I should buy bred heifers or older cows that are bred....let them have their calfs and then sell them off? The older cows go through less water? I know a guy about 3 miles down the road who has about 50 herfords and sometimes uses an angus bull? heifer...

I live in central, IL and could maybe do a pasture of 8-10 acers. There is very little water, so I would have to haul or run a hose a good distance. I would like to do a bull and a few breeding heifers. Maybe I would better with a few beef feeders? How many cows should I be looking at? What...