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Basics to consider in selecting a bull include breed type, parentage (pedigree), physical appearance, performance records and genetics. Each one of these factors was discussed by Joe Paschal of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension during the 2018 Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course.
- What is the most important trait used in selecting a herd bull?
- What are the general characteristics of a beef bull?
- What are the important traits that we use in breeding beef cattle?
- How do you tell if a bull is breeding?
- What should you look for when choosing a bull?
- What is the most important trait when selecting breeding heifers?
- What are the characteristics considered during selection of cow or heifer for breeding?
- What are the characteristics of beef?
- What are cows personalities like?
- What is the selection in cattle?
- What is trait selection?
What is the most important trait used in selecting a herd bull?
The EPD's that should be considered most highly when selecting a bull to produce terminal calves are calf growth and potential carcass traits. Growth trait EPDs include calf weaning and yearling weight.
What are the general characteristics of a beef bull?
Bulls: A mature bull should show a burly, masculine head with coarse hair, a heavy jaw, and heavy muscling in the neck and shoulders. The testicles should be well-developed and properly balanced in relation to the animal's age and size.
What are the important traits that we use in breeding beef cattle?
Soundness, correctness and breed character are most important in conformation of beef breeding stock. There are several terms, which relate to these qualities.
How do you tell if a bull is breeding?
Look for raised hair, mud or bare patches over the female's hindquarters. Also an indication of mating and estrus activity, it is another useful way to see if a cow has been serviced or not. These characteristics should be used to note breeding activity, but only if there is a breeding bull with the females.
What should you look for when choosing a bull?
Basics to consider in selecting a bull include breed type, parentage (pedigree), physical appearance, performance records and genetics. Each one of these factors was discussed by Joe Paschal of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension during the 2018 Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course.
What is the most important trait when selecting breeding heifers?
High milk production potential levels without the needed feed resources to support them may have a negative impact on reproductive rates. Selecting heifers with milking potential matched with your environment and feed resources is critical to her longevity in the herd.
What are the characteristics considered during selection of cow or heifer for breeding?
Among them and depending of the purpose of the animals, production traits like milk and fat yield, and body weight, reproduction traits like age at first calving and calving interval, and others like disease resistance, milk let-down, temperament, udder characteristics, skin colour and body size and shape.
What are the characteristics of beef?
High-quality beef has firm, velvety, fine-grained lean, bright red in colour and well-marbled. The fat is smooth, creamy white, and well distributed. In young beef the bones are soft, porous, and red; the less desirable mature beef has hard white bones.
What are cows personalities like?
Cows are intelligent animals with an innate sense of curiosity. They have a full range of personality traits that can include boldness, shyness, sociability, excitability, and more. Cows have a natural hesitancy and fear of the unknown; and do not like change.
What is the selection in cattle?
Selection is the tool in the hand of the breeder to improve the performance of the animal. Selection is defined as a process in which certain individuals in a population are preferred over others for producing next generation.
What is trait selection?
Genetic selection is the process by which certain traits become more prevalent in a species than other traits. These traits seen in an organism are due to the genes found on their chromosomes. ... A variation or allele of a trait makes some individuals more suited to survive in the environment.
