Tuli cattle

Description

Description
Tuli cattle
How much do Tuli cows weigh?
between 400 to 500kg
They have a medium frame and the average weight for mature. Bulls ranges between 750 to 850kg, while that of mature cows ranges between 400 to 500kg. The colour is solid, ranging from white through shades of red, brown, mustard and yellow. Tuli cows exhibit high fertility, good milk production and easy calving.
Tuli cattle
The Zulu name for this kind of coloured Nguni cow is inala, or ‘abundance’. The illustration is from The Abundant Herds: A Celebration of the Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People. Written by Marguerite Poland and David Hammond-Tooke and illustrated by Leigh Voigt, republished by Fernwood Press in 2015.
Tuli Cattle – The Intelligent Choice
Towards the end of 1976 the first Tulis, a group of thirty pregnant females and three bulls, were imported into South Africa from the T.B.S in Zimbabwe. The importers were the Bornmann family and a relation by marriage, Dr Fanie Kellerman. Dr Kellerman, a veterinarian, had at one stage worked in Zimbabwe where he had become aware of Tuli cattle and had been sufficiently impressed to want to import them. The first Tulis were introduced to the South African public at agricultural shows.
Distribution It has the unique ability to utilise even the worst quality grazing and still produce top quality meat. The amazing adaptability of the Tuli is self evident if one considers their distribution.
Attributes
The Tuli is indigenous to Southern Africa with hardiness and adaptability bred into it through a process of natural selection over a period of at least two thousand years. In recent times attributes of economic value have been the aim of scientific selection and have given us the modern Tuli. In female animals the accent has been on fertility, milk production and low calf mortality while in bulls it has been growth.