Performance Benefits

Why use Performance selected breeding stock?

With any cattle breeding program, the main goal is to achieve a more profitable and more easily managed enterprise.

Purchasing animals through the intelligent use of EBVs provides an additional tool to help attain that end.

The physical make-up (phenotype) of animals differs due to environment and genes. Any advantage an animal gains from the environment is not passed to its offspring. Some advantage from it's genotype is passed to progeny depending on the levels of heritability.

Understanding these principles, users of Droughtmaster genetics can apply this genetic component to their economic advantage.

There is a long time lag between when we make a breeding decision, such as buying a bull, and the sale or slaughter of that bull’s progeny. Similarly, the heifers from such a bull may remain in our herd for many years.

Obviously it is impossible to predict the future with certainty, however the use of a balanced selection method based on objective measurement, careful study of market forecasts, and trends in consumer demand, can provide a much "safer bet" outcome.

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