Likewise ! My first response was WHY ?? We bred some Chianina (forgot the correct spelling), a "wild" breed out of Italy and Brazil originally, crossed them with Charolette (sheesh ! my spelling has gone to the dogs !) They cross stood avg 6' at the shoulder and when one got the inclination to go over or through a corral fence it was first try and gone, great conversion % but hard on humansI’d be curious why anyone would want to make that cross.
If a guy just wanted the most dangerous game to throw onto his property for sport, look no further than the Spanish Fighting bull. They’ve been bred for their unique genetic trait of attacking a man on sight. They are fast, intelligent, cunning and deadly. I say release a dozen of those into some thick south Texas brush country grab a double rifle and let the fun begin!
Charolais. Lol. But yes. Breeding for size is great. But you also have to breed for temperament. You can take the animal out of the wild. But it takes generations to get (most of) the wild out of the animal. It’s been over a hundred years and they still haven’t been able to do it with chihuahuas.Likewise ! My first response was WHY ?? We bred some Chianina (forgot the correct spelling), a "wild" breed out of Italy and Brazil originally, crossed them with Charolette (sheesh ! my spelling has gone to the dogs !) They cross stood avg 6' at the shoulder and when one got the inclination to go over or through a corral fence it was first try and gone, great conversion % but hard on humans
Novelty for one.I personally don’t understand why people fool with beefalo
So in today's beef industry, it's not just size anymore, meat:weight ratios make a difference as well, example: the average angus has finer bones and will yield more meat per lb than the average semintal (sp?), Hereford, or charolais. There's a big outfit bought up a bunch of land around here, their geneticists decided that THE best critter for feed efficiency, beef yields, etc was to take a herefordxangus and cross that with an angusxcharolais. The cape buffalo bone structure would not be popular in today's market, then if we factor in temperament...... One time a local state park had some rogue bison and asked select deer hunters to keep their eyes open and rifles ready. I remember just last year a bunch of bison broke out of a feedlot down to south-eastern nebraska and the month long retrieval effort finally involved hiring a 3rd party to round them up.I'm not a cattle expert so let me apologize in advance for my ignorance. I'm aware that people in this industry are constantly striving to improve the genetics of their stock. Sometimes they'll buy sperm from a prized limouzine bull and artificially inseminate their cows. They've even created hybrids of American Bison and domesticated cows (Beefalo). Has anyone ever attempted to create a hybrid of an African Cape Buffalo and a domesticated cow? If so what kind of results did you get?
African Cape Buffalo and domestic cattle are not able to produce offspring. It’s been tried. Water Buffalo and domestic cattle are also not able to cross breed.
https://www.ilri.org/publications/v...brid-embryos-using-cattle-oocytes-and-african
If a guy just wanted the most dangerous game to throw onto his property for sport, look no further than the Spanish Fighting bull. They’ve been bred for their unique genetic trait of attacking a man on sight. They are fast, intelligent, cunning and deadly. I say release a dozen of those into some thick south Texas brush country grab a double rifle and let the fun begin!
As an exotic hunting experience with a price of $10,000 per kill I could be talked into attempting something similar......
Charolais. Lol. But yes. Breeding for size is great. But you also have to breed for temperament.
It's been done. Polled Pelosi. You cant eat them,or milk them. Very flatulent. They're just for show.
Oh yes, I'd definitely NOT be offering anything like THAT, I was thinking of a Spanish fighting bull/Brahma cross, should be interesting enough, but you're definitely correct on my price being too low I thinkYou are way low on your trophy fee. There was a guy at one time offering Cape Buffalo hunts on a high fenced place in the Midwest. I can’t remember exactly where it was but he was charging $30k. The problem with doing high fence Cape Buffalo hunts is that their bosses don’t really become fully developed (hard) until they reach about 10 years old. So if you are going to raise them you’ve got a decade plus of care and feeding before they become trophy quality. You also can’t import mature animals because of hoof and mouth restrictions. A hoof and mouth free certified buffalo breeding bull that has trophy genetics from a game ranch in South Africa can sell for upwards of $500,000.00 and a really good one for closer to a million bucks. The perimeter fencing needed to keep a Cape Buffalo in would cost you millions of dollars on any piece of land large enough to keep a buffalo on. Cape Buffalo are absolutely not even slowed down by standard barbed wire fencing. They require a heavy panel heavy post 12 foot game fence.
You can’t go live capture free range wild Buffalo and import them because of the various zootic diseases they carry that are transmissible to domestic cattle. Plus by the time you put together your capture team, transport team, vet health team, pay your export and import fees, and live shipping fees, you’d be better off to just buy a game ranch breeding bull.
I’m guessing the guy selling the “hunts” in the US was probably buying excess zoo stock. The whole deal was Joe Exotic level shady.
Fighting/Rodeo stock are often quite calm afield; they recognize the difference between the ranch and the arena.
Now, you want to be on your toes if you are trying to get them to do something they don't want to do, or something novel and different.
Bring up the stock trailer, and they can get all happy & excited, as they off to go "play."
Keeping them penned can be "interesting" too, as they are encouraged to jump and run and spin around. And seeing 750# of rodeo stock casually jump three foot obstacles can be a touch sobering.
Until you realize we humans have been optimizing beeves to only have enough "bits" to grow steaks all over. They are muscle-creating machines.
Black and Aberdeen Angus are similar but they are different breeds. I know next to nothing about Aberdeen Angus, mainly remember them having shorter legs and a taller torso. Others maybe able to tell you more about the differences but I do they are different breeds.In several reply's there is mention of, Black Angus. Is that breed the same as Aberdeen Angus breed of cattle?
Its illegal to use Belgium Blue for breeding beef animals in Sweden.
Short answer, yes.Is that breed the same as Aberdeen Angus breed of cattle?