BEEFMASTERS ARE A UNIQUE BREED OF CATTLE THAT ARE RAISING THE BAR
Created in the harsh brush country of South Texas, spreading to just about every region in the United States and beyond. Beefmasters are an original American Cattle Breed that offer the right blend of Bos indicus and Bos taurus blood in one breed; designed as a combination of Shorthorn, Hereford, and Brahman genetics, utilizing hybrid vigor to boost each line’s prime beneficial markers into the final bloodline of the recognized and popular breed.
Beefmasters provide the commercial cattle producer a solid foundation for out-crossing with other breeds to boost the quality of offspring with exceptional maternal influence and fertility. Unlike some terminal sire breeds, Beefmastes fill a dual role, producing excellent males and outstanding replacement females. Beefmaster bulls are popular for low-birth-weight calves that excel at weaning and yearling weights and they are easy to keep on limited forage.
DISPOSITION
Cattle with good dispositions possess what cattlemen refer to as a convenience trait.
Easy handling cattle experience fewer injuries and weight loss and require less labor when working them. Good disposition in your cattle herd will result in a safer workplace for you and your workers. Facility repairs and investment in heavy duty working pens can also be reduced.
Beefmasters are known for their calm nature and ease of handling. Do not confuse a cow’s mothering ability and protectiveness of her calf with a bad disposition. These cattle are highly intelligent and react to the kind of treatment they receive from their owners, and are a pleasure to work while improving herd profitability.
CONFIRMATION
When you hear the word conformation, it refers to the beef carcass on the rail and not just on the hoof.
While many cattlemen are targeting quality grade, Beefmaster breeders recognize that yield grade is more important. Beefmaster founder Tom Lasater knew that animals that produce carcasses which yield the most pounds of tender, lean beef per unit of live weight demonstrated the ideal conformation.
With consumers demanding lean tender beef, in the United States, Beefmaster packers and testing labs demonstrate that Beefmaster cattle provide competitive choices with other popular breeds in USDA quality beef selection standards and at the market place. Tenderness and lean beef quality are market oriented for fine dining and good health.
FERTILITY
One definition of fertility is the ability to produce offspring.
For a female to remain in the herd, she should calve each and every year weaning an ac-ceptable calve. Producers with a Beefmaster female, regardless of purebred or cross, will have a very functional cow to do just that. The female will be a cow that will take care of her calf in a drought or a blizzard and protect that baby from predators and harm. A bull’s fertility will be passed directly to his offspring. For those who keep a high percentage of their heifer crop as replacements, this is very important to the breeder to consider. The importance of stressing fertility in the beef industry is paramount to pro-ductivity and profitability.
HARDINESS
Beefmasters are being bred, raised and sold in many different climates and environments throughout the world, are found in North, Central, and South America, Australia, South Africa, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom, and easily adapt to varying range conditions.
Red, paint, and dun colors are popular in harsh tropical climates. Black Beef-master genetics are also available for particular market areas. Beefmasters adapt to heat with short hair and will grow longer hair coats in colder climates. Fleshy, heavily muscled Beefmasters provide strong heat tolerance. Beefmaster cattle do well in jungle rain forest type tropics with extreme heat and humidity and in more arid ex-tremes with difficult forage opportuni-ties. They also flourish in cold moun-tainous terrain in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and further to the north. Hardiness is surviving and surviving boosts profitability for the Beefmaster breeder.
WEIGHT
Since cattlemen get paid by the weight of cattle they produce, a heavier animal means more money for the producer. Beefmaster breeders know that efficiency of gain is an integral part of the equation of weight gain and profitability.
Weaning weight primarily indicates the milking ability of the cow. Post-weaning weight gain indicates the ability of the calf to gain weight individu-ally after weaning based on its genetics for growth. Research and experience have shown that Beefmasters provide higher daily weight gain averages at weaning and yearling stages than other competitive breeds offer. Outstanding weight gain in comparable feedlot and performance tests typically show higher efficiency of gain on intake of forage or feed. You can add money to your profit mar-gins by using Beefmaster bulls with heavy weaning and yearling weight EPDs.
MILK PRODUCTION
Beefmaster females are selected for milk production by evaluating the weaning weight of their calves. Beefmaster sires are selected from bulls with heavy wean-ing weights.Their heavy-milking dams will most likely influence the milking ability of the daughters that these sires will produce.
Beefmasters are known for their milking ability. Milk and maternal traits are part of the genetic strength of Beef-master cattle in the United States. In some regions of Central and South America, milk production from these animals is a second source of income for the owners.
The most inexpensive way to grow a calf to weaning age is on its mother’s milk. Good milking cows are “profit-makers.”Beefmasters are being bred, raised and sold in many different climates and environments throughout the world, are found in North, Central, and South America, Australia, South Africa, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom, and easily adapt to varying range conditions.
Red, paint, and dun colors are popular in harsh tropical climates. Black Beef-master genetics are also available for particular market areas. Beefmasters adapt to heat with short hair and will grow longer hair coats in colder climates. Fleshy, heavily muscled Beefmasters provide strong heat tolerance. Beefmaster cattle do well in jungle rain forest type tropics with extreme heat and humidity and in more arid ex-tremes with difficult forage opportuni-ties. They also flourish in cold moun-tainous terrain in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and further to the north. Hardiness is surviving and surviving boosts profitability for the Beefmaster breeder.
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