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Beef Cattle

Beef Cattle. How breeds do you know?. Angus. Black smooth coat Medium frame Males 1600-2000 lbs Females 1000-1400 lbs Good material ability Hardy Resistant to harsh weather/Adaptable High carcass yields and marbling in the meat. Angus. Beefalo.

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Beef Cattle

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  1. Beef Cattle How breeds do you know?

  2. Angus • Black smooth coat • Medium frame Males 1600-2000 lbs Females 1000-1400 lbs • Good material ability • Hardy • Resistant to harsh weather/Adaptable • High carcass yields and marbling in the meat

  3. Angus

  4. Beefalo • Bison crossed with any breed of cattle 3/8 bison and 5/8 bovine • Very hardy • Good foraging ability • Calving ease • Superior meat quality • Easy handling with long hair

  5. Beefalo

  6. Beefmaster • ½ Brahman, ¼ Hereford, ¼ Shorthorn Bulls 2000-2600 lbs Cows 1400-1800 lbs • Mostly red • Hardy and disease and insect resistant • Good maternal traits • Excellent growth and carcass value • Docile

  7. Beefmaster

  8. Belgian Blue • Large frame • Prominent muscling • White, blue roan, sometimes black • Quite temperament • Males average 1709 lbs and 53.2”

  9. Belgian Blue

  10. Belted Galloway • Old breed • Small framed • Black with white belt long hair • Good foragers perform well on poor land • High weaning and calving % • Hardy • Very lean meat • Bulls 1800-2000 lbs and cows 1000-1200 lbs • Docile

  11. Belted Galloway

  12. Braford • 3/8 Brahman and 5/8 Hereford • Superior maternal ability • Early puberty • High fertility • Calving ease • Good milk production

  13. Braford

  14. Brahman • Hump and long floppy ears with saggy skin • Male weigh from 1600 to 2200 lbs • Calves are small at birth but grow quickly • Calving ease • Must be handled carefully • Color light gray or red to almost black • Tolerant of heat and disease

  15. Brahman

  16. Brahmousin • 5/8 Limousin 3/8 Brahman

  17. Brahmousin

  18. Brangus • 5/8 Angus 3/8 Brahman bulls 1800-2400 lbs Females 1200-1600 lbs • Overall hardy • Disease resistant • Outstanding maternal instinct • Solid black polled • Withstand heat

  19. Brangus

  20. Charolais • White or cream colored with pink muzzle and pale colored hooves • Horned • Large frame • Deep broad body • Efficient feedlot gain • Bull 2000-2500 female 1250-2000

  21. Charolais

  22. Chianina • Short coat white to steel gray in color • Extensive well defined muscling • Grows fast • Short horns that curve forward • Bull up to 4000 lbs and females 2400 lbs

  23. Chianina

  24. Gelbray • Gelbvieh, Red Angus, Brahman cross • High Fertility • Early Puberty • Good mothering instinct and milk • Good beef production/cutability/quality • Uniform type and color • Adaptability/survivability

  25. Gelbray

  26. Gelbvieh • Red horned or polled • Superior fertility • Calving ease and mothering ability • Improved beef quality • Bull 2220 – 2900 females 1400 lbs

  27. Gelbvieh

  28. Hereford • Small to medium framed • Curly hair, red with white head and underside • Polled or horned • Bulls 1800-2100 lbs cows 1100 – 1500 lbs

  29. Hereford

  30. Limousin • Large Frame • Straw yellow to reddish gold • High daily gain and carcass value • Few calving problems • Handle with caution • Bulls 2000 lbs Females 1300 lbs

  31. Limousin

  32. Red Angus • Smooth Red coat • Medium frame Bulls 2000 lbs Cows 1200-1400 lbs • Good mothering instinct • Resistant to harsh weather adaptable • High carcass yield with nicely marbles meat

  33. Red Angus

  34. Red Brangus • 5/8 Red Angus 3/8 Brahman • Overall hardy • Good mothering instinct • Resistant to heat and disease

  35. Red Brangus

  36. Santa Gertrudis • 5/8 Shorthorn, 3/8 Brahman Bulls 2200-2600 lbs Cows 1400-1800 lbs • Deep Cherry color • Heat and disease resistant • Ease of calving • Good mothering instinct and milk production • Improved beef quality

  37. Santa Gertrudis

  38. Simbrah • Simmental Brahman cross • Early sexual maturity and fertility • Good mothering ability and milk production • Docile • Heat and disease resistant hardy • Good forage ability • Rapid growth • Good beef quality

  39. Simbrah

  40. Simmental • Large frame Bulls 2200-2800 lbs Cows 1600 – 1700 lbs • Docile • Pale gold to dark reddish brown, usually head is white from front of eyes and lower legs are white

  41. Simmental

  42. Texas Longhorn • Hardy • Aggressive • Adaptable • Ease of calving • Horns are expressive long and spreading • Most are multicolored

  43. Texas Longhorn

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