What kind of cows do you raise?

About the Randalls: I got two cows and a young bull last April and so far they have been nice easy going cattle to have. Not agressive, can pet both cows, one is halter broke. Easy to keep weight on with forage alone. The older cow calved in early October and had an easy birth out on pasture. She's never been grained and I'm weaning the calf next week, nice big heifer calf.

I had hoped to share milk with the calf for awhile, but my schedule is not close to any daily routine so it just hasn't worked, maybe next year.

They are just BEAUTIFUL cows and I'd been waiting for four years to get some. One cow hasn't calved yet, going to preg check her in the next two weeks and see if she's bred now.

If you click on my link at in my signature you can find pics of my cattle and a couple posts and pics about the Randalls. I'd almost be happy to have one just to look at, I think they are such pretty cows.

ETA: I got my three from a breeder in Missouri, so some people do keep them in warmer climates. They have thrived here in the frozen north of MN. The Lang's are great stewards for the breed and I've emailed with them since 2007 about the breed, very nice folks and lots of excellent info and pics about the breed on their site.

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Right now we have 68 milkers in stalls, all of which are holstien except 3 jersey cross cows. We have 30 or so hiefers and 3 jersey steers. We are getting away from the jerseys because thier calves are pretty much worthless, hence the steers, they will take them now and give you $5 but at the time they were born the trucker would even pick them up, he told us to shoot them.

Are these duel purpose cattle?

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“As the farmer who won the lottery said when asked what he was going to do with his winnings "Keep farming until it's all gone”

Yes, though on just forage I wouldn't expect much milk (but I'm single and hardly ever drink milk, I just wanted to try my hand at making butter and milking for the experience and enjoyment of it).

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Right now 1/2 lowline/Angus the Calves will be 3/4 lowline. The first one is due end of the month
steve

Lowlines, both pure and percentage; Zebus and 2 Jerseys. Throw 2 mini Herefords in the mix and one Limousin/Angus cow and that's my herd of many colors. :-)

Our dairy herd is almost all jersey. We have 3 jersey/normand crosses, and a jersey/ayrshire.

Our beef herd is all over the place. We have black angus, rodacala (don't know how to spell that), devon, hereford, and various crosses of those breeds. Our beef bull is a devon.

brown swiss milk cow I cross with a angus bull got a bull calf butcherd at ten months for 380 hanging weight of great lean tender baby beef for me I milk her and take extra good care of her but she is large and commands respect from the beef cows.there are a bunch of mixed beef cattle on the farm that i feed to get free hay for mine .the mostly angus crosses seem to do the best there were some mostly jerseys in he mix but they were weaker and needed extra looking after and were soon weeded out as there calfs were bringing a lot less at sale time

according to what I cant afford to buy, lol