Cattle Breeds

You can either buy one--off a local producer who sells such calves or from your local salebarn--or you can get one yourself by breeding an Angus cow with a Hereford bull (or a Hereford cow with an Angus bull). Even breeding a modern-type Simmental cow with an Angus bull (or vice versa) will get you a black-baldy calf.

An animal research should be able to find what is lacking in other current breeds and what can be improved in order to be successful with creating a new breed. An animal researcher must, therefore, be able to find a niche that other breeds have been unable to fill and find potential strengths in the new breed that can potentially fill this niche.

Bos primigenius taurus. A Texas Longhorn bull is merely the intact male of a particular breed, and that particular breed has ancestry tracing back to the Aurochs of most of Europe.

Limousin cattle are both horned and polled depending on genetics. Horned tends to be more prevalent, but it is not uncommon to see French breeders that have polled Limousin cattle. Polled Limousin are most common in North America.

Miniature cattle of various breeds have the lightest birthweight calves.

The gestation period of a Dutch Belted is around 285 days long.

Yes it is. Square Meaters, a more improved breed from the Murray Grey, are of the Bos primigenius taurus species.

They do, it's just not a common cross like Hereford to Angus or Simmental to Angus. Don't complain about it, just get a TL over that brimmer cow of yours and see what kind of calf you get and what it will grow up to be.

Yes you can. You won't have any calving troubles with this cross. Productivity of the calf may be questionable, but it's worth a try.

That all depends on the gender of that calf. Bull or heifer or steer?

That's kind of a "wait-and-see" sort of thing. You may get a calf that resembles a cross between a Speckle Park and a Hereford, something akin to a calf having a white face with a pink nose (or possibly black), dark color inside the ears and dark patches on either side of the body. There may be a dorsal stripe down the back from the nose to the tail and white under the body. The calf may also have black spots or patches on the feet and legs. But this is not certain, because genes have a way of making us make more of a guess than an assumption: it can be a guessing game when crossing one very differently-colored breed with another!!

For a picture of something similar (though the calf is from a British White cow, not White pointed Galloway) please see the related link below.

No. Horns are recessive-dominant, thus only appear if both parents are heterozygous polled (appear polled but have the horn gene), one is horned and the other hetero polled, or both are horned. Angus are homozygous polled, which means the first generation of offspring from a cross such as this will give you calves that are polled. They will, however, have the horn gene which means that if they are bred to a horned bull or cow, there's a much greater chance that their offspring will be horned.

That all depends on the age of the heifer. The older the heifer, the heavier she'll be.

No. A Hereford cow will only give birth to a Hereford-Limousin cross calf if bred to a Limousin bull. Only a Limousin cow can give birth to a Limousin calf--IF she's bred to a Limousin bull. Just like a Hereford cow can only give birth to a Hereford calf if bred to a Hereford bull. Otherwise, she too (referring to the Limousin cow) can give birth to Hereford-Limousin-cross calf if bred to a Hereford bull.

The best breed I can suggest is one that is dual purpose, being Dexter or Red Poll. You don't want to have a breed that gives literally the least amount of milk because you'll reach a point where you won't have enough milk for your family. And I highly doubt that's something you don't want to end up with!

Might I also suggest decreasing milking times to only once a day. It'll be easier that way on you and your time schedule because it sounds like you have no time to be milking twice a day. Once a day milking is possible and can be easily done, especially with those breeds that don't produce nearly as much milk as Holstein or Guernseys. Holsteins, by the way, were a poor choice because they give the most amount of milk of any breed. Guernseys and other dairy breeds are ones that are just that--milk cows, designed to give a lot of milk per milking or day. So, dual purpose breeds are the way to go.

Are you referring to a Beefmaster-Red Angus cross cow or either Beefmaster or Red Angus? If the former, a continental breed such as Limousin, Maine Anjou, Simmental or Charolais would be a good breed to put on this cross. If the latter, a good bull to put on a Beefmaster would likely be, once again, a Continental breed, or a distant British breed like Hereford. For Red Angus, you can't beat a Hereford over an RA to get a red-baldy.

Yes. In addition with having great convertability on grass, they also have good mothering ability not to mention an ability to raise some good calves.

It is for West. Mr. Galloway always thought of his heard heading west and figured that would be a simple sign to use.

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Depends on the age of that bull.

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Some, but not all. Spotting in cattle is a recessive trait and is kept by breeding spotted with spotted, regardless if a bull is bred to his daughters or a cow is bred to an unrelated bull. See the related link below for more info.