American Cross? European Cross?

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Biomurph

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I was watching the Fort Worth Stock Show sale of champions today and the Champion and Reserve champion steers' breed were listed as European Cross.  What exactly is a European cross?  In addition, they sold another animal listed as American Cross....not sure what that means either.  Thanks for any clarification you can give. 

BTW, the champion steer sold for $185,000 and the Reserve for $120,000....that is some expensive beef!
 

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american is half blood brangus, simbrah, gert, or brahman. or its supposed to have some brahman down there somewhere. SUPPOSED TO though most of the ones at ft worth that get that much hair and win the show generally dont have quite half blood
 

fed_champions

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european cross, is all of ur exotics. Charolais, Chianina, Maine-Anjou etc. they call them crosses because, theyre usually all juked up with a bunch of different breeds.
 

4S-shannon

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A americcan cross must be atleast 3/8 brahman. It has to also show brahman traits small neck hump looser dewlap and kinda sheathy. And the European and Exotics are just classified by what cattle breeds make them up if it is mostly a European bred cattle( maine-anjou, charlais, limosines, simmentals)and Exotics is everything else except American breeds ( bramham and all crosses)
 

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This is a good thread...I always can use a good reminder! Thanks
 

Bradenh

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4S-shannon said:
A americcan cross must be atleast 3/8 brahman. It has to also show brahman traits small neck hump looser dewlap and kinda sheathy. And the European and Exotics are just classified by what cattle breeds make them up if it is mostly a European bred cattle( maine-anjou, charlais, limosines, simmentals)and Exotics is everything else except American breeds ( bramham and all crosses)
it wont be 3/8 if it is out of say a gert or brangus cow. it will be less than that. but those are the characteristics that they need. . . they class out many sure fire americans. and let in some questionable ones. this whole system is flawed down here
 

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haha ours was a euro cross to a euro cross. and as you can tell we didnt get in. but we still had one good chip in there!!
 
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