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Making the Best Cow Longtime Angus Family Is Utilizing the Power of Heterosis by Adding Hereford Bulls to Its Commercial Cow Herd January 2014 January 2014 Hereford World Inside… Published by the American Hereford Association January 2014; Vol. 104, No. 8 Calving features: 283 Days ............. 44 Grafting Calves ....... 48 Adding Hereford bulls to the Goose Creek operation has helped improve the cow herd. Making the Best Cow Longtime Angus family is utilizing the power of heterosis by adding Hereford bulls to its commercial cow herd. WANTED: Hereford and Hereford-Influenced by Sara Gugelmeyer Feeder Calves ........ 28 hat do you get when you add the best Hereford Wgenetics in the country to the best Angus genetics in the country? Jess Herbers knows the answer: it’s the best commercial cow around — the black baldie. Meet the family Raised in a cattle-feeding family in western Kansas, Jess knows the power of crossbreeding. “I was raised in the Matching Cows and feedyard business,” Jess explains. His Production to the father managed a feedlot and the associated stocker cattle operation, Environment ......... 32 the Pyramid Ranch, which ran about 5,000 yearlings. After college at Kansas State University (K-State), Jess took the Kriegers Mr Limestone Z1 opportunity to manage that ranch. ET, CSF 18U Olivia 2102 But it was there at K-State, where Top National Hereford Jess’ eyes were opened to the seedstock industry. He fell in love with Wynn Show in Louisville .... 58 Dalton. The Dalton name is well known This Hereford-sired heifer represents exactly what Jess Herbers is looking for — a moderate, continued on page 16... easy-fleshing, highly fertile female. ...Making the Best Cow continued from the cover in the Angus seedstock business, as are highly influenced on carcass traits. Daltons have raised top-quality Angus Again, for me, carcass merit was a cattle in Virginia for 40 years, under must,” Jess explains. the name Daltons on the Sycamore. In 2010 Jess made the leap and The two were married in 2001 and bought a Hereford Revolution son from moved back East, where Jess quickly Knoll Crest. Jess next headed west to found himself continuing his education. Cooper Herefords in Willow Creek, He had to learn about the seedstock Mont., where he says he found some of business and the cow-calf business and the best Hereford cattle in the country. the much-different business of grazing He bought another bull, and Jess says cattle on the East Coast. his only regret was he didn’t buy more Daltons on the Sycamore was bulls that first trip to Montana. already quite the enterprise with There have been challenges, though. a progressive Angus herd run by Jess started with only about 150 cows, longtime manager Dennis Eastin. Doug and most of those were needed in and Beverley Dalton (Wynn’s parents) the embryo transfer program for the own the land and the company. They Angus seedstock operation. With have four children all of whom are careful management and purchases, he involved in family businesses. has grown the herd to about 450 cows. When he and Wynn moved back to Now he uses Hereford bulls or semen Virginia, Jess had to carve out his niche on all the straight Angus cows that within the family business dynamic. don’t get an embryo. “When I got here with my Each year, the straight-Angus commercial background,” Jess says, replacement heifers are artificially “we put a lot of ground back into inseminated (AI) to Feltons Legend production that had previously been in 242, a Genex sire. In fact, the top end trees. I got the opportunity to manage of the 2- and 3-year-old straight-Angus the commercial herd (called Goose cows are all bred AI to Hereford bulls Creek Valley Farms), which is a separate before entering the embryo program at entity from the registered Angus herd. 4 years old. “Now, we are all family at the end of “In doing that, I am hoping that the day, but we keep the registered herd the genetic base of the cow herd and the commercial cow herd separate comes from the freshest-sired calves,” from a management standpoint and Jess and his wife, Wynn, enjoy raising their two daughters, Curtis Ann (left) and Aubrey on the ranch. Jess explains. an economic standpoint so that we “Now I’ve got a big enough cow herd can measure both herds. We utilize western Kansas to be fed and sold on cattle from a conception standpoint and to justify keeping 40 or 50 replacement our excellent Angus genetics in our the U.S. Premium Beef grid. Because weaning weight standpoint,” Jess says. heifers. The straight blacks are AI bred commercial herd, and we use both ends of that arrangement, Jess’ No. 1 “It’s hard to believe, but you can go to Legend, and if it’s a crossbred heifer to feed off of each other,” Jess adds. concern was carcass merit. to South Texas and find cattle in better or black whiteface heifer, I’ll use an “I knew with our Angus bulls from shape than in this country, starving Angus sire on her.” Cow-calf crash course Daltons on the Sycamore, from a to death in ankle-deep green grass,” Special consideration must be made When Jess took over the management of carcass standpoint, that those traits Jess explains. “That was a big change, when running a herd for embryo the commercial cattle, they were mainly would be strong and highly heritable. coming from short-grass country. But, transfer, Jess says. “You can have a lot a recipient herd for embryos from the I wanted to be sure I wouldn’t hurt I remembered, growing up, some of of embryo cows, but you’ll run out of registered Angus herd. The base of the myself on that (by using Hereford the best cattle were black baldie steers. cows and end up with the tail-end of the commercial cattle herd had come with a bulls),” Jess says. They are tremendous cattle.” calf crop all the time if you don’t keep land purchase. The genetics were black- But, he hoped Hereford genetics enough cattle back for replacements.” hided and Angus-influenced; however, could help him make a better Bull shopping As part of his overall breeding the exact bloodlines were unknown. commercial cow. “I knew that I wanted Knowing he needed some Hereford bulls program, Jess currently keeps a bull Jess says he was concerned that lack of to take a breed of cattle that could thrive if he was going to produce those good- battery of about six Hereford bulls knowledge could be a risk in many ways. on low inputs and use a sometimes doin’ baldies, Jess talked to friend and and uses Hereford semen as well. He “Growing up in the stocker and negative trait of fat thickness and turn Hereford breeder Paul Bennett of nearby estimates right now about 150 out of feeder business, the cow-calf world that into a positive to add fleshing ability Knoll Crest Farms, Red House, Va. the 450 are Hereford-sired calves. was new to me,” Jess says. “But when to my commercial cows. You don’t think “That’s an old Hereford cow herd I went to managing it, the one thing of Virginia as being a necessarily harsh that from a carcass standpoint might be Impressive results I saw from a cow-calf standpoint is climate, but the heat and the humidity in the elite herd in the country. They’ve The results have been impressive, Jess profitability is based on percentages. the summer and fescue grass is hard on got generations of cows with data and says. “I am probably only two steps into If I don’t start with a high a six-step process, but I’ve been conception rate, everything goes very pleased so far.” south from there.” Jess has seen advantages in He continues, “I was trying conception rates and fleshing to figure out how to make the ability on the Hereford- best set of commercial cows, sired heifers and cows and given what I was starting with. advantages in calf vigor, average Everyone I asked: ‘What would daily gain, feed conversion and be your best commercial cow?’ cost of gain on the Hereford- said black baldie.” sired calves and calves out of Jess says he thought that the Hereford-sired cows. All of rotating Hereford bulls into his these advantages were gained breeding program was the best without sacrificing carcass way to get that type of cow. merit. Plus, the Hereford bulls He knew he had to be sure are very docile. before he went forward, though. “I am really pleased so far “I knew if I was going to bring with what I’ve seen,” he says. Hereford bulls back to an Jess noticed an advantage Angus family, I had to be able as soon as the Hereford-sired to prove myself,” Jess says. calves hit the ground because of On all of the commercial calf vigor. calves, ownership is usually “It’s tangible, but hard to retained all the way to harvest. measure, that calf vigor,” Jess The calves are weaned and says. “It’s real, though. When backgrounded and then sent to There's no doubt Hereford bulls are very docile and easy to handle, Jess says. those Hereford-sired calves hit 16 / January 2014 Hereford.org the ground, if you’re not right there, you may end up roping to get them tagged. They are up and sucking quick, “It’s tangible, but hard to measure, that calf vigor. It’s and those calves have a lot of punch to real, though.
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