I guess the answer depends on what you are trying to accomplish.And remember, your bulls affect every calf produced on your ranch. One bad cow only produces one bad calf. One bad bull produces 20-30 bad calves!
Hybrid bulls bring with them the possibility of more variance in the off spring. Some of these variances are undesireable.
The pure bred bulls sire more predictable calves.
Cross bred cows have been shown time and time again to have greater longevity, higher resistance to disease, better fertillity, and more production over their lifetime relative to purebred cows. Yes you may get a lot of color variations but once you pull the hides off, they all look the same. In my opinion, if you want to try crossbreeding, cross breed to a purebred bull for your replacements using EPD"s and pick your terminal sire from the purebred ranks based on EPD"s.
I"ve got mainly pure bred red angus cows and once I get the cow herd up to the carrying capacity of our ranch, I will bring in Polled Hereford bulls to start developing red whiteface cows and go back to red angus bulls for a terminal sire. I"ll keep a few pure bred cows to use for generating cross bred replacements.
Opinions are like belly buttons-everybody has one. This is mine on this subject.
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