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Animal husbandry in South Africa has a long history which greatly predates European colonization. [1] [2] [3] Nguni people who migrated to the area brought cattle with them and Khoisan people had been raising indigenous varieties of sheep for thousands of years. European settlers introduced new varieties of livestock, many of which have become ...
South Africa Developed from 10/16 Afrikaner, 3/16 Hereford and 3/16 Shorthorn cattle. Boran: East Africa (Ethiopia-Kenya) Usually white, with the bulls being darker (sometimes almost black). Brahman: India, Pakistan and United States: Large, pendulous ears and dewlaps, hump over the shoulders. Brangus: United States Developed by crossing Angus ...
Backgrounding is an intermediate stage sometimes used in cattle production which begins after weaning and ends upon placement in a feedlot.Background feeding relies more heavily on forage (e.g., pasture, hay) in combination with grains to increase a calf's weight by several hundred pounds and to build up immunity to diseases before putting them in a feedlot in preparation for slaughter.
Feeder cattle futures contracts, traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), can be used to hedge and to speculate on the price of feeder cattle. Cattle producers can hedge future buying and selling prices for feeder cattle through trading feeder cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's risk management program. [11]
In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher. A castrated male is called a steer in the United States. Older steers are sometimes called bullocks in other parts of the world, [6] but in North America this term refers only to a young bull ...
A Nguni cattle herd of the Makhathini ecotype. The Nguni is a cattle breed indigenous to Southern Africa.A hybrid of different Indian and later European cattle breeds, they were introduced by pastoralist tribes ancestral to modern Nguni people to Southern Africa during their migration from the North of the continent.
It docked in Cape Town to load feed for the cattle, the SPCA said. South Africa's Democratic Alliance political party, which governs Cape Town, also condemned the transport of live cattle.
An Afrikander ox train in the Orange Free State. The Afrikaner or Africander is an African breed of taurine-indicine cattle in the Sanga group of African cattle. [4] [5] It is derived from the cattle of the Khoikhoi (Hottentot) people which were already present in the area of modern South Africa when the Dutch East India Company established the Cape Colony in 1652.