Dark Pigment Charolais - Bulls With The Commercial Man In Mind!

Growing up in North America on commercial cow herds, we have all seen many changes in the last 30 years. From straight British cow herds, we witnessed first the benefits of hybrid vigor from crossing two breeds. Then with the influence of the European Beef Breeds, we became used to the term TERMINAL CROSS.

After experimenting with almost all of the new breeds we kept coming back to Charolais for the obvious reasons - weaning weights, feedlot demand, calving ease as well as acceptability at the packing plant. The job North American Charolais Breeders have done with their cattle over the last 40 years is beyond compare.

Personally, having a fondness for very dark pigment to BLACK females the only problem we had at home was consistency of hair coat and color. The dark pigment Charolais bulls we have been raising (red to black) have been very consistent - black calves off black cows and dark red off the rest. SRK DARKMAN is pictured below with a dark bunch of females with his March/April calves at side. These March/April calves were sold on October 20, 2000 off cows - no creep - off truck average weight of 635 lbs. They brought their owner a net return of $888 each. They were all BLACK and DARK RED with super hair coats.

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