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I’m yearning for the country side

I want that farm life more than ever

If you want to raise cattle my advice is get in contact with a small dairy farm(many small dairy farms will breed beef bulls over their dairy cows so that the calves they sell get a slightly better meat price when they are not breeding for new dairy cows)

Buy some half and half dairy beef heifers from the closest small dairy you can find.

You will never have any issues with calving that way.

Your cattle may look boney and get low prices initially but after a few generations of breeding beef studs over those cows you'll end up getting the best prices for at the market while maintaining the dairy ease of birth.

I started with two heifers. An ausline red Angus /Friesian jersey

And a Murray Grey/Friesian

Neighbours stud Hereford bulls.

My next step now is going to be selling the larger Herefords and inseminating with lowline Angus until my own bulls are stud quality

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Kayne 6mo ago

The first two generations were Hereford stud bulls and since then it has been Hereford/Angus bulls

The Australian Herefords are hardy and stay fertile a lot longer than other breeds, the Angus are good milkers and birthers with good meat quality that can handle the cold winters we get here, in my area the majority of the cattle are this mixture.

Angus are especially good for the fact that they only sexually mature after they are physically big enough enough to calve.

so immature pregnancy is extremely rare.

I'm also really interested in Park, like tipped park in particular, one of my neighbours has speckled park.

One of my cows jumped the fence to get to their bull a year ago but did not end up getting pregnant from the encounter.