BEEF BREEDS

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High Performance + Calving Ease = More Profit!
In successful beef production not only high growth rate
is important – the most important is a vital calf and a
easy calving. Svensk Avel provides bulls that combines
high performance and calving ease – to make your
beef production more easy to manage and more profitable – for pure breeding as well as for crossbreeding.
Svensk Avel offers bulls of the beef breeds Angus, Blonde d´Aquitaine,
Charolais, Hereford, Limousin and Simental. The largest breed in
Sweden is Charolais and Hereford followed by Simental. The main
market for beef semen is for crossbreeding in dairy herds – to give better
progeny for beef production.
All purebred cattle in the beef control program are weighed at birth, 200
days and at one year of age. These recordings together with information
from the slaughter houses gives all Svensk Avels beef bulls highly reliable breeding values for birth weight and growth rates as well as carcas
qualities.
The Swedish beef bulls are used in over thousands of Swedish dairy
farms every year and calving ease is one of the most important traits.
The calving ease are recorded on all calvings to provide you with the
most accurate and reliable calving data to allow you to make the best
choice of beef sire for your dairy or beef herd.
A calf born alive that stays alive is essential for beef production. But
calving ease is more than that – an easy calving gives you less work, less
veterinary treatments, less fertility disorders and the cow gets a good
start of the lactation – you save booth money, labour and trouble. The
selection for calving ease is one of the reasons why Charolais in Sweden
only shows 4% difficult calvings in purebred heifers.
All the breeds have their Polled variant. Svensk Avel have several polled
Charolais and Simmental bulls, as well as some Polled Hereford and
one Limousine. Sweden actually has the largest polled Charolais population outside North America.
Beef bulls from Svensk Avel is a reliable and
profitable choice. We offer you an extensive selection
of beef bulls for both dairy and beef farmers. To get
more information on bulls available, please contact:
[email protected] – today!
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Data from the National Beef recording 2005
Breed
ANG
CH
HER
LIM
SIM
Breed
ANG
CH
HER
LIM
SIM
Birth weights
Male
Female
41 (445)
38 (434)
49 (2852)
46 (2811)
44 (1292)
41 (1315)
44 (506)
41 (500)
48 (1173)
45 (1132)
Weight 200 days /Weaning weight
Male
Female
285 (366)
257 (337)
319 (1983)
284 (2035)
269 (1121)
245 (1128)
274 (448)
253(450)
341 (919)
303 (888)
Calving ease %
Heifers
Cows
2,9 (239)
1,1 (762)
4,0 (1461) 1,0 (4799)
3,5 (712)
1,1 (2180)
4,8 (272)
0,5 (824)
3,7 (668)
0,9 (1908)
Still births
Heifers
6,2
5,2
5,6
5,9
4,4
Cows
3,5
3,7
3,0
2,0
3,3
Weight 365 d
Male
470 (289)
593 (1631)
482 (946)
504 (319)
601 (667)
Female
386 (295)
453 (1786)
387 (889)
399 (383)
461 (668)
Phone +46 51126700
Fax +46 51126707
[email protected]
www.svenskavel.com
Sweden
The Profitable Choice