Hello all
I have a Shaver Beefblend herd here in Manitoba. I have been breeding and marketing Shaver Beefblend since 1994. Some of the comments made are true, some are close and there is one about a bull having a frame score of 10 and 3000lbs that is 100% wrong. Have said that there are some that are too big for my liking.
A little about us, four years ago we choose to become a forage only program and quit chasing the feedlot version of performance cattle. Cattle were put here to eat what pigs and chikens can't, forage not grain. These cattle are solid dark red, fertile, feed efficient and docile. Mature bulls will weigh 2200 give or take. Right now our two year olds in January averaged about 1700. Don Shaver's (he's retired now)goal for a grain developed bull was 1800lbs at 2yrs old.
We don't like to reveal alot about the genetic makeup so as to avoid any bias against any one breed, but all breeds used were used for a certain economic trait, each breed complimenting the other. It is the combination and recombination that keeps the genetics consistent. Email me if you wish at
[email protected] goinet .ca with cattle in the subject. Have a good one people.
