What breed of cattle do you raise?

8  Shorthorn
4 Simmentals
3 Maines
3 ChiMaines

Small farm family run. We have had shorthorns in the family since the 60's.

Mostly maine cross and a few shorthorns

Salers!  Salers are our pb herd.  The few comericals we have left are angus based with red angus, hereford, and simmy influence.

Jamie

used to have mostly black maine cross cattle...then about 7 years ago i stumbled into shorthorns....sold all the black cattle and bought me a group of pb heifers, leased a pb ai bull and started building a herd....was up to  27 head of pb's when we had a serious family illness and had to cut WAY back....we currently have 4 pb shorts,  2 mainetainers and are working on building our herd back up to the numbers we had before...
ai'd everything to sin city and jake's proud jazz this year and using a jsf miner clean up bull...

I started out raising purebred Herefords, (was even the Hereford Queen), then I had two sons, the oldest also raised purebred Herefords, he had about 10 of them,
my youngest son didnt think the purebreds were competitive enough so he started raising purebred maines, have moved to more of a crossbred maine, we have
one shorthorn cow, about 30 cross chi, maine cows and still some Herefords.  We had a purbred Hereford Bull which we just sold, my youngest decided that his calling was not
in college and bought a farm, and went into the showcattle business, he has two bulls one a hairy bear and one a purbred shorthorn, he has taken on a partner to go into the business with him.  We also have a few purebred Red Angus (we use Pieper Red Angus semen for all our Red Angus).

We have a purebred Shorthorn herd ... also a small commercial herd of about 40 cows... mostly Angus/Maine crosses and a few tan Shorthorn/ Char crosses. These are mostly used as recips. The purebred herd usually around 150 cows, presently at about 100 cows but we also have 55 heifers to breed this spring. Our purebred herd is down right now as we sold 73 bred females in the last year, privately off the farm. This has kinda taken a big chunk of the heart of the herd and left us with the best cows and several lower end cows that are also used as recips. As dry as it is here, I think we will be doing a major bottom end reduction this year. I can always get more recips if it ever decides to rain here again. If it ever does rain here, someone may have to throw a pail of dust on me to revive me!! It simply is not right to be wearing sneakers in the cattle pens in March and April.  I think some of you down south east of here are hogging all the rains!

When BSE hit Canada, we lost a big chunk of our purebred cattle market and also lost about 1/2 our income as we could no longer sell to the US. We decided to expand our ET program, and while it was a very risky venture, it has paid excellent dividends. It has also made us become better marketers, as there is nothing that can stimulate one to get some cattle or embryos sold than receiving a $10,000 ET bill in the mail. As many of you know, ET is not for everyone. What it has done for us is it has opened up the entire world as a marketplace. ET + the internet has become our best pieces of technology. Never in my wildest dreams, would I have believed what the internet could do, in regards to marketing breeding stock , five or six years ago. Today, my computer is my most valuable piece of farm equipment. In the past two weeks I have sold 10 embryos to Scotland, sold a flush to New Zealand, sold at least 3 bulls in our bull sale to buyers who saw our bull sale catalogue online,received and order for embryos from England, and last night I completed a large sale of embryos to Australia.  All these sales were to people I have never met, and who have never seen our cattle.... all from a simple website. I have become a big believer in the power of the internet.

With the costs of travel and the costs of fuel spiralling out of control upwards, I believe my computer will only become more important. Sorry for getting off topic .... AGAIN!!

we have about 80 pb angus and try to get quality bulls and heifers for sale and also we have about 50 xbreed cows that we use for our club calf herd.

1 murray grey + her murray grey/Chi bull calf
1pb simmi
2 holsteins (oxen)
7 75 % + Chis
1 simmi/shorthorn goin on the trailer
anything else that finds its way to my property usually stays for a while

Shorthorns with a small commercial heard that is at least 50% shortie

7 High % maines, 10 maintainer/chimaines, and some Chi/maine/angus/Simmi.  We really like our maines for tempermant.  We seem to have a really easy time working them and breaking them

Ranch i manage has 600 hd of commercial mostly Angus cows.  Still a few old gelbviehs left, but they are weeding themselves out due to old age.  Use Hereford and Angus bulls.  Have two Charolais bulls that aren't working out very well, would like to find a new owner for them.  Tried South Devon bulls on our first calf heifers.  So far really, really good.  Ranch also has about 20 hd of purebred Angus cows that is growing for the sole purpose of producing bulls to use on commercial cows.

I personally have a small herd of commercial black and black baldy cows.  As well, I raise Herefords.  Thinking about getting into South Devons! 

80 cows...shorthorns....durham reds.Since 1977.

Used to keep busy chasing 164 reg. angus all over the county, now taking it easy with just 12 high % maines, 3 maintainers and one poled hereford thrown in to make it interesting. The hereford by the way had our best calf so far this year, a bull out of Ali. (clapping)