Trust quality, not quantity
Feb 04, 2022
3 minutes
A Limpopo beef cattle farmer claimed that if you didn’t insist on a short calving season, 60 or more cows could be serviced with just one Afrikaner sire. He explained in this article.
To achieve a high calving rate, it is not necessary to use more than one Afrikaner bull in a reasonably-sized herd.
This is the view of DJ Robbertse, a beef producer in Limpopo and a bushveld farmer since 1944.
His properties near Thabazimbi cover about
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