Fancy An Extra $5,800
When considering what breed of sire you would like purchase, please consider that a Uranongo blonde bull can increase the dressing percentage of your calves by 5% and that by anyone's standards is easy money.
10 month old Blonde/Murray Grey Vealer Steers |
We have gathered weights, measurements and prices to show how we have come to make this claim. We'll start with some Perth Royal Show results.
A pure British bred calf won the Royal Show Champion Extra Heavyweight on the Hoof but over the hook his dressing percentage was 54% and had a fat score of 15mm which left it in last place. While a Blonde cross steer, that was unplaced on the hoof, won the Royal Show Champion Extra Heavy Weight on the Hook with a dressing percentage of 67% and fat score of 6mm, well within specifications.
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Pure bred Blonde sire - Uranongo Lochern. |
Over 50 calves - an extra $5,800 goes to the farmer for doing nothing but changing the sire. In W.A. you pay less for a quality Blonde sire!!
A feedlot turning over 10,000 head per annum turns that $116, extra cream, per calf into $1,160,000 simply by feeding Blonde cross cattle instead of straight British cattle.
Please remember that these figures are based on the 5% difference in dressing percentage between a British bred show calf and a halfbred Blonde commercial calf. Our commercial blonde/murray grey calves have dressed out up to 62% and 3/4 to pure blonde calf will dress out even higher.
For further reasons why a Uranongo blonde bull can improve your dressing percentage over the hook please click Why Blondes?
7 month old 3/4 Blonde/Murray Grey calf. |