Beef Master Cattle

Description

Description
Beef Master Cattle
Beefmaster cattle are known for their adaptability to different. Environments, which allows them to thrive in a variety of conditions. They are equally adapted to the Kalahari, the Eastern Highveld, the Bushveld and also Sourveld. This adaptability can lead to better forage utilization and more efficient conversion of feed to weight gain, resulting in heavier calves at weaning.
Beef Master Cattle
Weaner Weight
Beefmaster cattle were bred with a focus on maternal traits. Such as milk production, fertility, and mothering ability. These traits are important for ensuring that calves. Access to the nutrition they need to grow and thrive, resulting in heavier weaning weights. Years of selection have had the result of medium framed cows weaning on half their weight.
Fertility
Beefmaster cattle were specifically bred to be fertile, with a focus on selecting for animals that could produce and raise a calf every year. Beefmaster cattle typically reach sexual maturity at a young age. Beefmaster cattle are known for their easy calving, which is a reflection of their good pelvic structure and size. Beefmaster cattle have been shown to have high reproductive performance, with good conception rates, low incidence of infertility, and high calf survival rates.
Adaptability
Adaptability seems to be the foundation to the fertility performance of a herd and thus individual animals. One of the keys to surviving in the cow-calf production system is adaptability, which is determined by how well one’s cows fit the environment they live in. Hair Coat, Tick Ressistance, Condition throughout the year, Early Pregnancy in the breeding Season are major easy to spot indicators. The herd pregnancy rate should be 90 percent or more. A goal should be set that more than 95 percent of the cows exposed to the bull last year should be ready to calve or already have calved this year.
Nonpregnant cows are not adapting to the local conditions and need to leave. Another indicator of adaptability is calving distribution. Two-thirds of the cows should calve within three weeks of the start of the calving season and 90 percent should have calved within six weeks in a highly adapted herd.
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