Beef, its whats for dinner

Chapter #6

A Mature Male is called a: Beef Bull A Mature Female is called a: Cow The act of Giving Birth is called: Calving Gestation = 283 days A Castrated Male is called a: Steer An Immature Female is called a: Heifer

Terminology

What is a Breed?
a group of animals that have certain traits in common
color size body structure place of origin horned or polled

What is a Purebred?
animals of known ancestry where all parents etc. are of the same breed Breed associations register purebred animals, develop markets for those animals, and organize breed shows

What is Crossbreeding?
mating animals of the same species, but different breeds Angus mated to Hereford crossbreed to achieve desired animal traits

Cow-Calf: most common need range land calve in spring, sell calves in fall feed 2# roughages per 100# of cow weight in winter (extra for cold weather) supplement with needed proteins, minerals, vitamins feed best hay to those that need it the most (pregnant, lactating, heifers) lots of clean water & free choice salt

Beef Production

Feedlot Finishing
place calves in feedlot 500-700# feed high concentrates (grain) 2-4 months slaughter at 1000-1200#

Beef Production
Cow-Calf Production: own cows, sell weaner calves Stocker: buy weaner calves, sell yearlings Feedlot Finishing: buy calves, fatten, sell to slaughter house

Texas Longhorn

Polled Hereford

Angus

Shorthorn

Brahman

Charolais

Santa Gertrudis

Brangus

Beefalo

Beefmaster

Belgian Blue

Belted Galloway

Blonde dAquintaine

Chianina

Devon

Dexter

Galloway

Gelbvieh

Highland

Limousin

Maine Anjou

Murray Grey

Piedmontese

Pinzgaur

Salers

Simmental

South Devon

Tarentaise

Beef, its whats for dinner.