Breed best suited for me...

[Thewife]

I've had wacky Herefords and annoyingly tame Brahma crosses! But I have also had wacky Brahma crosses and annoyingly tame Herefords! The Semmentals were pretty good!
I've had many people tell me the limos are crazy, but I haven't really seen that?(yet)

I think with any breed theres gonna be the good, the bad and the just plain ugly!

 

[kstaven]

I think with any breed theres gonna be the good, the bad and the just plain ugly!

That is SO TRUE! Half the Dexters around here fall under the really ugly attitude portion. One farm here raises highlands I would never turn my back on and the other major highland breeder has great mellow cattle.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

So it seems that it comes down to plain breeder as with any animal. If the breeder has docile animal and breeds for docile animals, then their offspring 'should' carry the same traits. And if a breeder simply does not select for temperment, then who knows what is going to pop up. LOL

-Kim

 

[jhm47]

I artificially inseminate several thousand cow/heifers each year. Some Angus are wild, some are tame. Some simmentals are wild, some tame. Some herefords are wild, some tame. I will have to say that the worst cattle I have ever seen were Chianina, followed by Salers and Limousin. I haven't bred many of the Chi, Salers, or Limmi's, so I'm sure that there must be some tame ones somewhere, but I sure haven't found them yet.

 

[kstaven]

I artificially inseminate several thousand cow/heifers each year. Some Angus are wild, some are tame. Some simmentals are wild, some tame. Some herefords are wild, some tame. I will have to say that the worst cattle I have ever seen were Chianina, followed by Salers and Limousin. I haven't bred many of the Chi, Salers, or Limmi's, so I'm sure that there must be some tame ones somewhere, but I sure haven't found them yet.

If through all that inseminating different breeds of cattle a jersey bull calf ever shows up that isn't a nut case LET ME KNOW! I have yet to find one I would have on the property.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

I've dealt with Hereford crosses and would not recommend them. They are not easy to work with!

Me too! But I've also dealt with HerefordX's that ARE easy to deal with and would let you do what you wanted with them. Just so long as you don't push them too hard.

Kitty, you must've had a time with the Holstein-HerefordX, right? Those'd definately give you a fun time to handle. The HerfX that I've dealt with were those calves offspring from Angus, Red Angus, Charolais, Limousin, etc. and some would give you "the look" and others'd want to come up to you.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

So it seems that it comes down to plain breeder as with any animal. If the breeder has docile animal and breeds for docile animals, then their offspring 'should' carry the same traits. And if a breeder simply does not select for temperment, then who knows what is going to pop up. LOL

-Kim

Funnily enough I heard of something like that a while back on another forum that had some folks mention that sometimes they'd get a wild heifer or steer that came from a docile cow, or even vice versa. But in most cases, yes the offspring should carry the "docile gene" to pass on to their offspring. Hopefully.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I've dealt with Hereford crosses and would not recommend them. They are not easy to work with!

Me too! But I've also dealt with HerefordX's that ARE easy to deal with and would let you do what you wanted with them. Just so long as you don't push them too hard.

Kitty, you must've had a time with the Holstein-HerefordX, right? Those'd definately give you a fun time to handle. The HerfX that I've dealt with were those calves offspring from Angus, Red Angus, Charolais, Limousin, etc. and some would give you "the look" and others'd want to come up to you.

Yes, Holstein/Herford cross. Out of real easy Holstein to work with too. Those Herford crosses were the most stubborn creatures! We worked with them from calf up, just like the others but, they had a stubborn streak a mile wide. I also don't recommend milking them-

 

[WildRoseBeef]

I've dealt with Hereford crosses and would not recommend them. They are not easy to work with!

Me too! But I've also dealt with HerefordX's that ARE easy to deal with and would let you do what you wanted with them. Just so long as you don't push them too hard.

Kitty, you must've had a time with the Holstein-HerefordX, right? Those'd definately give you a fun time to handle. The HerfX that I've dealt with were those calves offspring from Angus, Red Angus, Charolais, Limousin, etc. and some would give you "the look" and others'd want to come up to you.

Yes, Holstein/Herford cross. Out of real easy Holstein to work with too. Those Herford crosses were the most stubborn creatures! We worked with them from calf up, just like the others but, they had a stubborn streak a mile wide.

Probably because they prefered to be lead, not herded.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Me too! But I've also dealt with HerefordX's that ARE easy to deal with and would let you do what you wanted with them. Just so long as you don't push them too hard.

Kitty, you must've had a time with the Holstein-HerefordX, right? Those'd definately give you a fun time to handle. The HerfX that I've dealt with were those calves offspring from Angus, Red Angus, Charolais, Limousin, etc. and some would give you "the look" and others'd want to come up to you.

Yes, Holstein/Herford cross. Out of real easy Holstein to work with too. Those Herford crosses were the most stubborn creatures! We worked with them from calf up, just like the others but, they had a stubborn streak a mile wide.

Probably because they prefered to be lead, not herded.

With all the halters around here leading isn't a problem, believe me, we use them. Just brought a heifer in to be bred on one as she wouldn't herd but, lead like a pro.