Herd Management
High grade Brahman cattle are currently used to maximise production.
To achieve a good 'brand image' and market competitiveness, a policy of buying only top quality bulls, selected for fertility as well as carcase characteristics, will prevail.
Key aspects of herd management will comprise:
- Two mustering rounds - first round start in April and second round start in August
- Improve cattle fertility rates by pregnancy testing all first join heifers and culling non-pregnants, cull-for-age cows rising 10 yo, cull-for-age bulls rising 9 yo
- Dry cows to be set aside at muster and professionally pregnancy tested with all empties culled
- Whole herd to be treated for botulism
- Calves to be yard weaned on hay - minimum weaning age dictated by season
- Phosphorus mineral supplementary feeding of whole herd during wet season
- DNA testing targeting tenderness and feed efficiency traits.
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