Beef cattle breeding and selection
General information
- Beef cattle breeding systems
- Bos indicus/Bos taurus crosses - growth in different environments
- Cattle breed types
- Developing an effective breeding plan for your beef business
- Economic advantages of better management of your beef breeding herd
- Objective measurement in beef cattle showring judging
- Record keeping for herd improvement
- Selecting and managing beef heifers
- Testing beef cattle for net feed efficiency - standards manual
- Using EBVs and $Index Values in beef breeding
Bull selection
- Bos indicus bulls - watch that sheath
- Bull health
- Bull management
- Bull soundness - reproduction
- Bull soundness - structural
- Checking your bull is ready for joining
- Yearling bulls - tapping their immense potential
Breedplan
- BreedObject - software to balance EBVs
- Breedplan and the bull buyer
- Calving ease EBVs
- Carcase EBVs (Version 4.2)
- How Breedplan compares cattle in different environments
- Mature cow weight EBVs in Breedplan
- Maximising benefits from scanning for carcase traits in seedstock herds
- Multibreed EBVs
- Performance recording options for breeders of composite and crossbred bulls
- Reading a Breedplan catalogue
Beef cattle breeds
- Africander
- Angus
- Beef Shorthorn
- Belmont Red
- Boran
- Braford
- Brahman
- Brangus
- Charolais
- Chiangus
- Chianina
- Devon
- Droughtmaster
- Galloway
- Gelbvieh
- Hereford
- Limousin
- Maine Anjou
- Murray Grey
- Poll Hereford
- Romagnola
- Santa Gertrudis
- Shorthorn
- Simmental
- South Devon
- Tuli
From the bookshop
- Better breeding - beefing up your business
- Better bull buying to target markets
- Breeding feeder steers for high quality markets (video)
- Cattle breeds in Australia - a complete guide (book)
- Crossbreeding with terminal sires
- Picking cows on heat (video)
- Selecting sound and fertile bulls (video)
- The new science of cattle breeding (book)
