Santa Gertrudis New Zealand

BREED FEATURES

The eight main reasons you should choose Santa Gertrudis:

Santa Gertrudis cattle adapt easily and quickly to a wide range of climatic conditions.
Exceptionally good forager.
Exceptional longevity, bulls have been known to work until 14 - 15 years of age and regularly females 13 years and more have been recorded as producers of top calves.
An inherent trait of Bos Indicus is their unlaboured gait which enables them to easily cope with long distances to food or water

Easy Calving, Santa Gertrudis cows are renowned for producing calves with small birth weight and rapid weight gains to weaning.
The good dark coloured, well hooded eyes are known to be resistant to cancer and have also proven resistant to pink eye problems.
High resistance to bloat under a variety of conditions
Strong healthy calves mean a higher percentage from birth to weaning and more profit in your pocket.
Tick resistance, Santa Gertrudis cattle have maintained a high inbuilt and heritable resistance to tick.

Cows have above average production of quality milk with high butterfat content.
Santa Gertrudis cows calve easily and are renowned for their natural protective maternal instinct, one cow will often stand guard over numerous calves while the other cows graze or a few mothers tending over 10 to 12 calves.

Santa Gertrudis cattle maintain high buyer demand because of their reputation for high yielding carcass and the ability to produce ideal fat coverage for the market.
Large mature size ensures high salvage values on culled stock.

Santa Gertrudis cattle are acceptable under the Standard of Excellence either horned or polled.

One of the greatest attributes of the Santa Gertrudis carcass is its excellent lean meat yield. Add to this consistency of even fat coverage and early maturity and you have a product that will suit any market.

In the cross breeding business the Santa Gertrudis cross animal stands alone.
The butcher, the processor, the cattle buyer and producer have all recognized that consumer demand for more lean beef – and less waste fat. Beef of this type is produced by Santa Gertrudis and Santa Gertrudis Crossbreds.
For cross-breeding purposes Santa Gertrudis bulls as a terminal sire, mated to any type of cow cannot be beaten. This has the ability to add kilograms to calves at weaning time.
Crossbreeding has been proven as one of the most successful methods of increasing production in a commercial herd.
Crossbred Santa Gertrudis make outstanding export bullocks and excellent vealer sires
The Santa Gertrudis cross provides a breeding female with a large frame, excellent milking ability and longevity – all of which combine to give you more cost efficient beef production and profitability.
Good Santa Gertrudis bulls are available to commercial cattle breeders at acceptable prices
Santa Gertrudis – excellence for Stud or Crossbreeding

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Cow and calf

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Steer

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Polled bull

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