Anyone know anything about crossbreed wagyuholstein?

Philip d · Aug 7, 2017

The guy we buy AI supplies from carries sorted supplies that will result in 90% of the calves being heifers for your best cows and also beef breeds with 90% being bulls for your tail Enders . He offers it with 4 million cell technology meaning you get 90% of the conception rate as conventional supplies. One of the beef breeds he carries is Wagyu. I know purebred Wagyu finished to standards can bring enough money to buy a decent used car for 1animal if you can find someone willing to pay for it. My real question is does a market exist making it worth while to raise a few Wagyu Holstein crossed calves or would angus be a better choice? Thanks for any suggestions.

da.bees · Aug 7, 2017

If you already have a market it's hard to go wrong unless buyer dies or go's out of business. I don't know of anyone around this part of Tx selling Wagu other than breeding stock. Lots of angus x herford and brahman animals and they fetch premium at auction barn.

JD Seller · Aug 7, 2017

Any breed crossed with Holstein will NOT bring any kind of premium in the beef market. Right now anything showing Holstein is bringing $20 per hundred weight less money than the beef breeds. So If I was breed my Holstein herd I would be using sexed semen and trying to birth all the Holstein heifers I could get. Then pick the best and raise the rest and sell then as springers to the larger dairy herds. You will make more money year in and year out doing this over fooling with cross breed beef calves.

I know little about modern milking herds. I do know the beef end of the market. The Dairy bulls/steers are a drag on the beef market right now.

IF you have to breed to beef breeds make them Black as possible and hope for as little white as you can get.

Ray IN · Aug 8, 2017

There is a doctor around here who raises waygu cattle and the steaks are very good. He just bought a limousin bull to do some crossing with the waygu cows. But with holstein I do not think it would be very good--breeds are too different.

Brown Swiss · Aug 8, 2017

I agree with most of that but there is the sale barn I send my fats to has a raised price for Holstein/beef type crossbred cattle.
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rrlund · Aug 8, 2017

I've never looked in to the attraction for those Wagu,but I've often wondered if some people confuse Wagu with Kobe or however it is you spell it? Aren't the Kobe the ones raised on beer and get a massage?

Philip d · Aug 8, 2017

I think Wagyu are bred to be year round pasture raised and take 3 years to finish? They're rangey looking outfits. I think I'll stick to straight Holstein and forget about the angus or Wagyu. If the cows that bad I'll not bother breed her at all.

Anyone know anything about crossbreed wagyuholstein?

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