re: beefmaster cattle

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l their maintenance requirements will be no more than say angus or brangus

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ok what are your credentials to be able to say this? Are you a cattle rancher student or what. I have owned them and know without a doubt that it takes more to keep one up. And you say pounds is what matters in todays market? Explain why a charlais 100 pounds heavier will bring the same as an angus.

Sorry I dont know how to do the quote thingy.

My B.S. is in Beef science and my M.S. is in Ruminant nutrition. Also have worked on the cow crew side my whole life on ranches in Florida and spent time in on a stocker operation in Texas and a feedlot in Kansas. I do formulations for a feed company now. With respect to you having owned both of them I don't doubt that you had some that may have been poor keepers but in my experience with one ranch in particular that runs around 5000 beef masters along with plain English cattle the bos indicus influenced animal will always be more thrifty. I should have probably prefaced all this with saying especially in subtropical climates this is true. Experience along with lots of research done by universities would lead me to say that.
Also look at any sale barn or market reports and you can see that heavier calves may receive less dollars per pound but their increased amount of pounds more than offsets the price slide. A black hided calf weighing the same as a Charolais or smoke calf will probably bring more but those differing genotypes are almost never the same in terms of growth. To see a an angus weighing 100 lbs less and bringing the same amount would make me think that was a dumpy Charolais calf. Not saying it can't happen but I have sat in sale barns enough to know its the exception not the norm.

EDIT: I apologize too if any of that sounded snooty. Cattle are a huge investment and there is always something to learn in regards to good management. It just happens to be the one subject I'm pretty comfortable with this the long windedness in trying to offer some advice

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Glad you liked our bull and he could make yall some $.

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What do you mean by "our"?

so I ended up getting 2 of them. he also said I can bring them back to his place when they are ready to be bred he will let his bull handle business. In the meantime I am going to look into artificial insemination. I tried to look for people in the area that would provide a service where they receive the semen, keep it on ice, then come do the transfer when the heifer is ready, but couldnt find anything. might be a good opportunity for someone that is retired to make a few extra dollars.

Well you are certainly qualified to answer I would like to thank you for the work that ya'll do. Unsung heros in my opinion cause we have made great strides in the cattle industry in recent years and it stems from getting the science to the producers.
Diat congrats on the purchase. I am sure you will be happy with them

Congrats!