Compared to older species with more complex histories, Converter cattle can be traced back to the original breeding participants. Hays Converters are leaner cows with a rougher appearance compared to the Holstein or Hereford. Their coats are not smooth and attractive like British cattle, and this difference caused some ranchers to favor the newer European breeds that entered the market while the Hays Converter breed was being developed. Harry Hays was not concerned about how his cattle looked, but he succeeded in producing Converter yearlings one-year-old calves that weighed an average of kilograms.
Converter calves mature faster than competing breeds and can quickly enter the beef market. Records from to indicate the Hays Converter yearlings still maintained an average weight that exceeded kilograms. Unlike other cattle, Converters do not need their hoofs trimmed. After the Hays ranch was sold in , the University of Alberta moved the cattle to a special breeding facility in High River, Alberta.
Although a few small herds are maintained in Western Canada, the number of Hays breeding cows declined in the 21st century. As of , only breeders lived at the High River facility. For Canadian farmers living in Alberta, Hays Converters make excellent cattle for small-scale farming.
They provide lean beef, milk high in butterfat, and offspring that grow quickly. Hays Converters are unique cattle that possess many qualities that farmers and breeders admire.
She has a strong love for all animals of all shapes and sizes and particularly loves a good interspecies friendship and wants to share her animal knowledge and other experts' knowledge with pet lovers across the globe. Member Posts: Karma Always had an interest in them - found the breed combo behind them to be interesting - but never saw any, or knew anyone here in the US who produced any.
There were still a fee RX3 breeders around the Midwest years ago, but I've not seen anything about them in a long time. I guess both ended up taking a backseat to the Simmentals, Gelbvieh, Chi, etc. There are still a few people raising Hays Converters in Western Canada, but their numbers are falling every year, not because they are poor cattle, but because of the poor promotion that has been mentioned in a previous post.
We always had a pen of Hays Converter bulls at the Saskatchewan Livestock Center when it was operating at Regina and there were always some impressive bulls in the pen every year. They reminded me of the Friesan breed that were imported from the UK. They were by far the best cattle we saw there, including the Shorthorns and large herd of Simmentals as well.
They were black with white faces. They were thick and very well muscled. The few females in production we saw had beautiful udders. I remembered being impressed with how feminine and fertile the females looked and the bulls were masculine and meat machines. I also remember Dick Judy saying that the biggest problem the Friesan cattle would have in the US would be their color pattern. I think he was right. Cattlemen do not consider BWF cattle as being purebreds.
The Hays Converters were very similar to these cattle. They were produced by Senator Harry Hays on his Alberta ranch and after many years of selection, they were able to obtain pure breed status from Agriculture Canada.
Harry Hays designed this breed as he wanted to develop a breed that could work well in ranch conditions that had a bit more size and yet retained their ability to adapt to dry years and still come in each fall with a big calf and were safe in calf again.
Had the influx of the European breeds been delayed for a few more years, I think this breed would have had a bigger acceptance in Canada. Experience is what you get when you don't have it when you need it. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and bad breath!
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity If love is blind The only thing worse than an idiot Hays Converters were incorporated under the Live Stock Pedigree Act in but the development of the breed started in As with many of the smaller breeds they have had trouble expanding their base. I don't beleive they have had a lot of promotion.
I saw a herd eight years ago and they were similar to the photos in the attached link. They have a similar look to my Simford cattle! The Converters on the website look pretty beefy for having such a large dairy influence!
He chose her primarily because she peaked in milk production in her eight month. Two years after the original matings of the sons of Fond Hope and the Hereford cows - the best females born from these mating granddaughters of Fond Hope were bred to Silver Prince. Five of the best bulls from these matings sons of Silver Prince and great-grandsons of Fond Hope were selected to mate with their mothers Fond Hope's granddaughters produced by the original matings with Baker's Herefords.
Having brought together the specially gifted progeny of Fond Hope and Silver Prince, Senator Hays next introduced the superior genetics of Jane of Vernon's offspring.
He mated four of her great-grandsons with one of the Hereford cows. The female progeny from these matings were then put into the breeding herd. Now that he had combined the genetic materials he wanted, the herd was closed to all other outside breeding influence.
By his own breed of cows had been bred to his own breed of bulls regularly and exclusively for seven years, and his work on improving nature's genetics was producing the results he had anticipated. In a committee appointed by the Canadian Department of Agriculture inspected the herd. This committee reviewed the breeding program, inspected and nominated "foundation" animals and in December the first purebred Certificate of Registration was issued for Hays Converters. We are currently looking for high resolution pictures of any of the breeds.
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