British and continental breeds
Scottish breed, the County of Aberdeen and Angus.
The color is black with pigmented mucous. It is one of the breeds more spread in the country by their skills of rapid fattening and conditions of easy adaptation to our pampas. Its breeding in argentina started at the end of the 19th century were when imported the first animals by Carlos Guerrero.
Gives excellent mothers brooders, easy grass feedlot steers, and she achieves a quality product, with the nuanced flavor and tenderness that characterizes the livestock Argentina.
Scottish breed, the County of Aberdeen and Angus.
The color is colorado Abaya with depigmented mucous. It is one of the breeds more spread in the country by their skills of rapid fattening and conditions of easy adaptation to our pampas. Its breeding in argentina started at the end of the 19th century were when imported the first animals by Carlos Guerrero.
Gives excellent mothers brooders, easy grass feedlot steers, and she achieves a quality product, with the nuanced flavor and tenderness that characterizes the livestock Argentina.
The breed is native to the Murray Valley, on the border of new South Wales and Victoria States, in Australia.
The hair color is typically greyish ("Silver") with shades of dark to clear, combined with mucous membranes Pigmented, and they have the characteristic of being polled natural. Mothers are characterized by being very good and highly fertile breeders, It helps to achieve high percentages of weaning and heavy calves, In addition to not present difficulties to the delivery. They are docile animals, with an adult size males of 750 to 800 kg and females of 470 kg, on average. They have the quality of play in an outstanding way, both grazing systems and feed lot, allowing to obtain trouble free, steers for domestic consumption and export.
They produce tender meat with the proper marbling, reaching an appropriate level of fat easily, and they have a high percentage of performance of meat to be slaughtered.
Originated in Iowa, USA, by crossbreeding of a cow with Red Polled Hereford (mocho), being born a calf with the characteristics of Hereford but mocho. In Kansas crossed Polled Shorthorn with Hereford, resulting in a 20 % with features Hereford calves but polled. Another breeder formed a line of polled Hereford buying calves that were born polled by mutation.
It is similar to the Hereford but mocho, with a prominent poll.
Originating in the County of Hereford, in the Center-West of England, This race, white face and body of reddish fur animals, Bulls, is considered more ancient of the island. The first bull to the Argentina arrived in 1860, Niagara remained the same. It is widespread throughout the country, with a high percentage of the bovine population in Entre Ríos, and with rodeos in the Andean foothills and even in Tierra del Fuego.
The dominant color is cherry red Abaya. The face should be white, extending to the chest white, Belly, groin and tips, from the Carpus and Tarsus down. The tuft of the tail should also be white. Mucous membranes are depigmented. The characteristic antler's horns medium, color wax, inserts on the sides of the forehead, with the tips slightly downwards. In females, the horns are more thin and up, confronting ends.
Used for the production of meat, being one of the largest producers of beef in the world, In addition to a high quality and uniformity in their courts. The producer is inclined to this race not only because of its easy adaptation to the environment, but also because you need an animal that is not so demanding food to produce very high quality meat.
Also known as Durham, by the County to the Northwest of England, which is originally, is a race of short horns.
There are two varieties which were selected by the breeders. Butcher has a growing fast, good conformation and not presents difficulties in childbirth. They are excellent dairy breeding very well their calves. Your hair may be colorado, Red and white, or colorado and rosillo. There is a strong presence of subcutaneous and intramuscular fat in their flesh. The variety of dairy, on the other hand, It is a mixed breed who gives milk rich in protein and fats. Their hair has demarcated spots frequently coloradas.
Race native to the arrondissement of Charolles vaccine, in France. It is appreciated for its characteristic meat, low fat content derived from its past as a working breed. Today it is a meat breed.
They are uniform cream or white animals, with short horns or acornes, large size (1000 to 1400 kg for males 710 to 900 kg for females). It presents a large muscle mass with abundant mantle of meat in the rear quarters, where cuts of greater quality of meat flavor. It has been traditionally used in crosses with British breeds, especially Angus, in order to achieve bulls from better performance of meat from its lower fat content.
Cows are prized for their qualities as breeding: fertility and prolificacy (high rate of delivery of twins), good production of milk to feed the calf, very high speed of growth. It is a rustic animal, adapted to various conditions of breeding.
Limangus cattle originated ago 30 years, and is there where is converted in the first race synthetic developed by producers Argentine. The same, was led forward under the clear objective of adding production of meat to the race Angus, already distinguished by qualities in this and other ways. In this way, the Limangus was stabilized as 3/8 Limousin and 5/8 Angus, and occupies in the Argentina one of them places more prominent in matters genetic.