CATTLE BREEDS: BEEF

• TYPES of CATTLE:

  w/ Hump - Meat
• TYPES of CATTLE:

  w/o HUMP - Dairy
• Breed- Having a homogeneous appearance
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Aberdeen - Angus (Black)

  • hornless
  • smaller calves
  • smooth body form
  • color: black (white is not permitted)

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Brahman

  • Hump
  • Curved horns (upward)
  • Resistant to: Heat, Texas Fever, Pink Eye, and Cancer Eye
  • can eat low quality grass
  • Instead of "moo" they "grunt"

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Devon (Ruby Red)

  • "Red Rubies"
  • thick curly hair in winter
  • short and sleek coats in summer
  • Mature Bulls weight: 1,700 to 2,200 pounds or more
  • Mature Cows weight: 950 to 1,300 pounds
  • Calving problems: SELDOM
  • Red in color, can be deep rich red or a light red but color is preferred in a bright ruby red

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Galloway

  • Furry: temperate locations
  • Smallest beef breeds

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Hereford

  • "White faced cattle"
  • Red bodies
  • White face, and underside
  • known for their "vigor" and "foraging ability"

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Red Angus

  
• Important Traits for selecting SIRE BREEDS

  • High growth rate with moderate mature size
  • Acceptable calving ease
  • Adequate carcass quality grades (marbling)
  • high retail product yield
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Limousin

  
  

  • "butcher's animal" in france
  • Named after a province in France
  • Rich, red-gold color
  • Long bodied, heavy muscled, trim-middled, and light boned
  • lowered na cattle

  
• HYBRIDS- crosses between animals above the level of breed (species, subspecies, even genera)
• Considerations for Breed Selection

  • Production system
  • Market demands
  • Quantity and quality of feedstuffs available
  • Climate
  • Breed complementarity
  • Cost and availability of purebred seedstock
• Traits Important for Selecting DAM Breeds

  • early puberty
  • moderate mature size
  • high fertility
  • moderate to high milking ability (appropriate for feed resources)
  • calving ease
  • longevity
  • acceptable growth and carcass characteristics
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Chianina

  • White with a black switch on tail.
  • largest cattle in the world
  • many bulls weight: 4,000 pounds
  • rapid growth, well marbled, fine textured
  • Full blood Chianina have short hair varies from white to steel gray.
  • short horns curved forward
  • usually black when young
  • most noticeable characteristic is their extensive and well defined muscling

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Murray Grey

  • Calves are small at birth
  • The cows are good mothers
  • Docility seems to be a genuine asset of the breed
  • polled
  • solid dark to silver gray in color.
  • The color can be helpful and problematic. Gray reflects more heat than dark colors. Dark skin helps prevent eye cancer and sunburned udders.

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Santa Gertrudis

  • A deep cherry-red color
  • Developed in Texas
  • Brahman and Shorthorn
  • Noted for their tolerance to heat and insects
  • five-eighths Shorthorn and three-eighths Brahman
  • show very little evidence of a hump
  • Improved meat than purebred Brahman

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Gelbvieh (Gelp-fee)

  • The breed is red in color
  • Strong skin
  • horned
  • Proponents of the breed claim the breed has superior fertility, calving ease, mothering ability, and growth rate of the calves.

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Salers (Sa'lair)

  • typically horned
  • dark mahogany red in color
  • number of polled and black Salers are available.

  
• BEEF CATTLE:Simmental

  • light red or cream with faces much like HEREFORDS
  • white spots on a white band over the shoulder
  • POPULAR BEEF CROSSBREEDING, due to docile and milk production.
  • "rapid growth development"
  • outstanding production of milk, butter, and cheese
  • DRAUGHT ANIMALS

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Charolais

  • naturally horned
  • oldest of the French breeds
  • white or creamy white in color
  • polled Charolais are important part of the breed
  • Mature bulls weight: 2,000 to 2,500 pounds.
  • Mature Cows weight: 1,250 to 2,000 pounds

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  GALLOWAY

  • Very "docile"
  • are good rustlers and extremely hardy
  • can stand cold weather
  • smallest breed of beef
  • polled, short legs, and is block and compact in type
  • Mature Bull weight: 1,700 to 2,300 pounds (1,800 average)
  • Mature Cow weight: 1,000 TO 1,500 (1,250 average)
  • Calf birth weight: 75 - 80 pounds
  • Steer can produce 600 to 750 carcass

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Scotch Highland

  • small but exceedingly hardy
  • long, coarse outer hair coat and a soft, thick undercoat
  • Acceptable colors are black, brindle, light red, red, dun, silver and yellow

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Maine-Anjou

  • Dark Red, red with white spots (on head, belly, rear legs and tail.), or roan.
  • Largest breeds developed in france
  • Mature Bulls weight: 2,200 to 3,100 pounds
  • Mature Cows weight: 1,500 to 1,900 pounds
  • Heavy muscled

  
• BEEF CATTLE:Short horn

  • developed by a cross and from naturally polled shorthorns
  • Large, rectangular, and well muscled.
  • color ranges to red to white

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Aberdeen-Angus

  • Black
  • polled (without horns)
  • body form is smooth

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Devon (ruby reds)

  • red to light red, to deep red or chestnut color
  • The hair is of medium thickness and is often long
  • have adequate size and scale but are not "horsey" big
  • Mature bulls weight: 1700 to 2200 pounds
  • Mature cows weight: 950 to 1300 pounds
  • breed is noted for its fertility
  • In England, they are known as "the Beef Breed Supreme at Grass."

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  Africander (Afrikander)

  • good resistance to heat and high level of tick resistance
  • Bulls weigh 750 to 1000 kg (1650 - 2200 pounds).
  • cows weigh 525 to 600 kg (1150 - 1350 pounds)
  • was used with Shorthorn in developing the BONSMARA
  • was used with Holstein in creating the DRAKENSBERGER
  • late maturity
  • carcass low in fat covering
  • USED IN UPGRADING INDEGENOUS CATTLE

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  American Polled Hereford

  • originated in Iowa.
  • modern Herefords minus the HORNS
  • They produce more calves under adverse conditions.

  
• BEEF CATTLE:

  American Simmental

  • old breed, in the Middle Ages
  • Simmen Valley of Switzerland
  • white to light straw faces with red to dark red, spotted bodies
  • docile
  • adaptable