Do Herefords start to ‘show’ earlier than other breeds?

[ButtonHerder]

This will be our first year calving out some pure Herefords, we have 3, 2 year old heifers and they seem to be showing (rear end loosening) way more than the rest of the mostly Angus heifers. They still have about 6 1/2 weeks until they are due. Has anyone else noticed that Herefords start showing earlier?

 

[Baymule]

I can’t help you on that, but didn’t want your post to be ignored. I had Hereford crosses and F1 tiger stripe, no angus.
Don’t get worried about it. Just keep watch on them. It might help to make a thread for your cattle in the cattle forum. Then next year, you can read it and have a record of things like this. Make a yearly calving thread, I can be a more detailed record of how they ate, if any went off their feed, what you fed them, swollen lady parts, who bagged up and when, and that sort of thing. I’ve done it with my sheep but due to circumstances the past year and a half, I dropped the ball, I need to get back on that myself.

 

[canesisters]

I wish I had Hereford experience. My girl is angus. She shows EVERY sign of eminent birth for about 10days ....
You might try checking in at a forum called Keeping a Family Cow - tons of cattle specific info and a few folks who have hereford and hereford crosses as their backyard dairy cows, so will be very familiar with them.

 

[farmerjan]

Herefords tend to be "looser" than angus and some other breeds for some reason... I have noticed it in some of ours as we run a mixed herd of commercial cattle. It goes with them being a little looser in the udders and more often than not having less udder support in general. They tend to just be a looser skinned breed which is part of their traits.
Do you know exactly when they got bred??? Date bull went in or you bred AI ???? You take their first possible due date and realize they can go 2 weeks BEFORE that date too.... every line or family of cattle are different too...

 

[ButtonHerder]

Herefords tend to be "looser" than angus and some other breeds for some reason... I have noticed it in some of ours as we run a mixed herd of commercial cattle. It goes with them being a little looser in the udders and more often than not having less udder support in general. They tend to just be a looser skinned breed which is part of their traits.
Do you know exactly when they got bred??? Date bull went in or you bred AI ???? You take their first possible due date and realize they can go 2 weeks BEFORE that date too.... every line or family of cattle are different too...

We *think* the bull went in the 24th of July. I’ll have to find the exact date.