Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Irish Red Cattle, Number One Beef Cattle In Europe

By Lila Bryant


Nations all over the world boast of the various breeds, species and varieties of cattle they have. These types range from beef specialties, dairy cattle, farm oxen as well as those put into a myriad of other effective uses. Ireland is well known for some of the most desired beef cattle species around the world most notably the Irish red cattle, which has put Northern Europe on the spotlight for more than 8000 years.

Originally produced by the Americans, but modified by the Irish, the breed has one of best beef producer genetics in the 21st century. For more than fifty years, the process of development and actual engineering of these hybrids has been ongoing. The procedures used were established according to the general standards of performance set by the US beef industry. The instructions index outlines that the animals should attain and maintain outstanding performance methods to remain in the category of Reds Foundation blood. This has led to the current superior breed which is feed proficient, efficient, very fertile and is generally a beast of high level performance.

Maurice Boney, in 1960, began and dedicated himself to the process of coming up with this breed becoming one of the great agricultural icons of Ireland. He goes down in history as the pioneer and champion of unmatched and most genetically powerful cattle today. His main aim was to provide a solution to the increasing demand for better and efficient beef producers not only in Ireland but Worldwide.

The beasts are unique and have a high predictability of genes. This aims to propagate their genetic quality for fertility, production traits and promote increased production in beef industry. The beasts are a result of a very critically verified, closely controlled process with linear breeding procedures.

The heifers originate from beef Friesian genotypes with parts of their blood content coming from the ancient Aberdeen Angus traits which are then added to plain parts of the hardworking females. In this process, the excellent commercial females were designed.This was before the Friesian sires found in Ireland were imported to make up the outstanding carcass qualities essential in developing the best beef producers.

The process of selecting and developing the breed involved a lot of time and resources in an effort to upgrade the performance of the cattle. In fact, the preferences of the market in the United States were the main considerations in developing the new breed.Tenderness and the tastiness of the product were among the major preferences considered.

The Reds of Ireland are serviceable, thorough in structure, and to a great extent, cut on the reliance on labor.

These animals offer reliable and predictable beef genetic types.Efforts to produce a similar breed in America are underway but currently an exact replica has not been produced.

Reasons why the cattle are preferred are, among others, their genetics are pure, they have high concentration of genes, super fertility, high carcass quality, marketability and are flexible in various environments.




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