Mature cattle having more than 3 years of age should be used for breeding.
Cattle gutter used for mating.
In this type of livestock system sires of a pure breed are successively used to mate nondescript females and their progeny generation after generation.
A 1 in the case of cattle horses or other livestock acquired by the taxpayer after december 31 1969 section 1231 applies to the sale exchange or involuntary conversion of such cattle horses or other livestock regardless of age held by the taxpayer for draft breeding dairy or sporting purposes and held by him.
The breeding stock consists of male cattle which are known as bulls and female cattle cows.
Some common methods of breeding of cattle buffaloes sheep goats pigs horses donkeys mules camels etc.
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Breeding beef cattle is relatively easy as compared to breeding dairy cattle.
The word cattle has been used in english for about 1 000 years and the meaning has changed.
The word cattle is used for some wild animals as well as for.
Beef cattle can utilize roughages of both low and high quality including pasture forage hay silage corn maize fodder straw and grain by products.
Cattle also utilize nonprotein nitrogen in the form of urea and biuret feed supplements which can supply from one third to one half of all the protein needs of beef animals.
Ai offers a selection of bulls with known genetic potential such as measured by estimated breeding values ebvs for traits such as ease of calving or growth rates.
Natural breeding and artificial insemination.
In the first mating the f 1 progeny will get 50 per cent of genes from the purebred sire.
When choosing breeding stock for the beef cattle farming business you should take note of the health history of the cattle.
If it is a female on sexual maturity it will be mated to another purebred sire of the same breed.
Cloning could allow breeders to select those cattle that can produce high quality meat or milk and thrive in extreme climates and use them to breed more cattle to be used for food production.
Ai has been commercially available for 60 yr.
Mating systems have to do with finding the right genetics but this must be done in the context of the environment into which the cattle are going to be placed.
Matching the genetic potential of the herd to the production level of the operation is one of the most critical steps of developing a mating system.
And you don t have to think much about many things such as genetic improvement increasing milk production etc.
It is widely used in dairy cattle but is used much less in beef cattle because of handling and labor costs.
Alternatively instead of using bulls you can use artificial insemination for breeding the cattle.
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