Ugliest Recip

[BSCattle]

Anyone else have one of these?  Ugly as sin but always breeds back right away and milks great.  She currently has a shorthorn Heatwave calf on her that is on our ad in the classifieds.  Her name is Lumpy and my kids can spot her from a mile away!

 

[OH Breeder]

She looks like she has a sweet disposition though. LOL.

 

[lightnin4]

A farm I worked for right after college had a Charbray recip everyone called "Great White".  Physically she wasn't too pretty, disposition-wise she was definately UGLY!  She raised a heck of a calf, but she would eat you alive given half the chance.  We moved the herds with 4-wheelers and you didn't stop or hesitate when you moved her group.  If you did she would move in for the kill!  I don't know why they kept her. Probably had something to do with the fact thatt the decision makers didn't do much of the  cattle handling. 

 

[Diamond]

yup I have one of them, but we dont use her as a recip, we actually breed her an every year she throws a flat out awsome calf, NO clue where it comes from

 

[husker1]

That just might be one of the ugliest I've ever seen.

Thought we might have a couple in contention when I read the caption....then I opened and saw the picture....OMG....we don't even come close! 

 

[CAB]

  Don't you just have to love ugly cows too? Have you happened to mouth that old ugly girl? Wonder how many seasons she has left in her, God bless her!!

 

[DakotaCow]

The prettiest girls dont always make the best cookies!!! <cowboy>

 

[BSCattle]

We had to buy 10 cows from our neighbor to get pasture rented from him, she's the only one left. We tried to get her bred to a Brahma bull at a buddy's place a couple years ago just to see what would happen but I think she spent the month she was there running scared from him, apparently she's never looked in the mirror 

 

[CMAHerefords]

We have a cow that is maybe not quite like that, but she raises some really good calves no matter what you cross her to. If I were to have a donor cow it would be her.

 

[forbes family farms]

We have a cow like that milks great and is an awesome mom, and she's raises one of the best show calves at our farm each year, i dont know where it comes from though, but its not about the looks it's about the right gentics with the right gentics that will produce great calves.

 

[cattleguy]

Got this sweet lookin ugly giraffe herford cross recip from Larry Shafer in Ohio.

 

[Shady Lane]

I always herd that you don't want more than 25% Giraffe in your cowherd otherwise they start knocking the rafters loose in your calving barn in the spring.

In a 3 way cross used in a rotation with british based cows it sure will help to extend their fronts and keep their udders out of the mud though...


(lol)

 

[Rocky Hill Simmental]

We used to have a pretty ugly cow and to make it worse she was the cow that would always turn around and run the opposite direction when we would have to move them. She'd have a pretty good looking calf each year but they were even spookier than she was. She had just one horn, a roach back, a bobtail, and she was really short. The only reason we kept her as long as we did is because she'd always breed back fast. Finally had an excuse to get rid of her a couple of years ago when there was a big hay shortage. When we took her to the sale barn, everyone was asking what in the heck kind of cow she was. lol

Here's a pic. She wasn't a recip though. Just a commercial mama cow.