What is your favorite Cattle Breed?

[farmerjan]

Favorite dairy: Guernsey, then Jersey, then Dutch Belted, then Montbeliarde.

Favorite Beef: to eat, any jersey or guernsey cross.
breed; Red Poll for grazing, Belted Galloway for looking cute and good disposition, Low line angus for efficiency.
And I am trying some Aubrac semen on my dairy crosses so will see how they do.
I like the Belgian Blues and Piedmontese for the muscling.

For saleability here in Va it has to be black; angus and other crosses.

 

[Baymule]

@Latestarter we had Wagyu steaks once. A neighbor got them off the mark down rack in a floocy-doocy gourmet grocery store (it was in the back room and only employees were allowed to buy the marked down meat). He was doing AC work and the manager let him go shopping in the back. He brought the Wagyu steaks to us. They were melt in your mouth good!

 

[Baymule]

@farmerjan the best selling beef cattle here are black also. Because we ALL know the hair color is so important when customer buy their meat on Styrofoam trays wrapped in clear plastic......but the meat color is still red....

 

[Latestarter]

So when my steers are ready to meat market I have the perfect add attack point. "If you can set aside your racist & stereotypical beliefs for a moment, you'll realize that hair/skin color has no bearing on the flavor and texture of the meat you're about to purchase! From me, you'll be purchasing the best beef available, clothing and hair removed! I'll tell you it was a black cow if that's what you need to hear."

 

[Baymule]

 

[Bossroo]

So when my steers are ready to meat market I have the perfect add attack point. "If you can set aside your racist & stereotypical beliefs for a moment, you'll realize that hair/skin color has no bearing on the flavor and texture of the meat you're about to purchase! From me, you'll be purchasing the best beef available, clothing and hair removed! I'll tell you it was a black cow if that's what you need to hear."

Yup, marketing con job along with the "grass fed" and "organic" .

 

[greybeard]

lots of con jobs in all kinds of livestock production nowadays and in general as well. A gullible public is easily led...........and often, led astray.

 

[Athena2344]

I don't raise cattle and have no plans to do so, but my grandpa has always had steers on the place. Most are Corriente type and really attractive animals. Personally I love Jerseys and Brahmas, though if I ever was to get cattle it would probably be a Brahma cross. Or the zebu (mini brahma) if I'm really indulging my dreams.

There are two types of zebu actually, the standard and the miniature... My favorite breed would have to be brahma for beef, and brown Swiss for dairy.

This is my heifer Dotty, I am currently showing her.

 

[Donna R. Raybon]

Jersey for dairy. And, for my own table Jersey steers! To sell on market, Black Angus. Had about 25 head and they raised fat calves.

If they would milk well enough to raise a fat calf and not get pink eye at the drop of a hat, Polled Herefords.

For fun I would have Texas Longhorn. Neighbor has a herd and I love watching them.

 

[farmerjan]

Pretty Zebu. They are strictly a novelty here. I have a longhorn that is the daughter of a cow I picked up cheap. She is about 18 months, mostly all white as was the mother, but has a nice set of horns that are growing straight out and will make an impressive head. She is also one of the quietest and most laid back of the heifes in that group, and the least aggressive. The others actually pick on her.

@Latestarter : the only thing is that there actually breeds that the meat is tougher than others. That would be my only little thing to pick about your statement that I pretty much agree with wholeheartedly.