Beef, its whats for dinner

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Beef, its whats for dinner

• Chapter 6

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What is a Breed?

• a group of animals that have certain traits in
  common
• color
• size
• body structure
• place of origin
• horned or polled

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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

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What is Crossbreeding?

• mating animals of the same species, but different
  breeds
• Angus mated to Hereford
• crossbreed to achieve desired animal traits

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Texas Longhorn
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What are the English Beef Breeds?

• Hereford - Red white, horned or polled
• most popular in the U.S.
• Angus - bred to compete with Hereford
• smaller cows and calves
• excellent conformation (body type)
• mature lighter
• resistant to pinkeye cancer eye (due to black)
• Shorthorn - dual purpose breed (meat/milk)

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Hereford
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Polled Hereford
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Angus
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Shorthorn
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Other Beef Breeds

• Brahman - from France
• hot humid climates
• disease resistant
• Charolais - large long body, fast growth
• used to increase size of English breeds
• increasing in popularity due to low marbling
• Santa Gertrudis - 3/8 Brahman 5/8 shorthorn
• popular in southern U.S.
• Brangus - 3/8 Brahman 5/8 Angus

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Brahman
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Charolais
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Santa Gertrudis
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Brangus
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What are Exotics?

• animals not common to U.S.
• used for increasing calf weights
• importation laws restrict bringing exotics into
  the U.S.

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Beefalo
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Beefmaster
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Belgian Blue
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Belted Galloway
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Blonde dAquintaine
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Chianina
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Devon
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Dexter
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Galloway
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Gelbvieh
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Highland
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Limousin
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Maine Anjou
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Murray Grey
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Piedmontese
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Pinzgaur
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Salers
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Simmental
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South Devon
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Tarentaise
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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

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Beef Production

• 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

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Feedlot Finishing

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

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Beef Terminology

• A Mature Male is called a
• 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

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Beef, its whats for dinner.