Angus Cattle

Good meat quality and high popularity throughout much of North America, especially the United States.

Records are there to identify a calf, its date of birth, birthweight (if necessary), and its dam and sire, as well as its tag number and any health records (vaccination, treatments, etc.) with that calf. All of these records, and more, are there in case a problem arises where the calf, if grown into a full-grown cow or bull (depending on the sex of the calf) needs to be traced back to its birth place or for any genetic records of its sire and dam.

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Depends on the ranchers themselves and what market they are targeting, and what cattle they're feeding. Cattle fed on a feedlot diet (which comprises of 97% of the finisher/backgrounding herd in the USA) are not fed hormones, but are given growth hormones via implants in the ears. Heifers, on the other hand, are fed hormones to keep them from going into heat all the time. Angus cattle on such a diet are fed primarily corn-grain-silage mixture to fatten them up prior to slaughter.

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Usually around 600 lbs.

The mature weight of a Red Angus cow ranges from 1000 to 1500 lbs. Some breeders like to have their cows a bit bigger, with an average weight of 1400 to 1800 lbs.

Heifers, on the other hand, are growing animals. Most heifers at weaning age should weigh in and around 500 to 600 lbs. At 15 months of age, which is around the time they are to be bred, they should be 60% or more of the average cowherd's weight. On average, though, they would weigh around 750 to over 800 lbs.

Top calves that are purebred with great genetics may range from $500-$700. If you are buying at a sales barn or other means of livestock auctioning calves are going for about $1 to .70 cents per pound for weaned calves. This price may vary in your area.

NO! Black Angus can ONLY be ALL black in order to be deemed purebred. Also, an animal that is deemed to be Black Angus MUST have DNA tests done on the animal, the sire and the dam to prove that it is indeed purebred and not a composite. The animal you are talking about is a composite breed, which is a result from crossing Hereford with Angus, or even crossing Angus with a Hereford-Angus F1 cross.

That all depends on you. You may decide on charging that person $10 to $20 per day to rent your Angus bull to breed their cow[s]. Or you may decide to lend him for free.

Yes. All beef, regardless of whether it's a value-added product, a premium product marketed by a breed association or what, has to be federally inspected by food safety inspectors hired by the USDA.

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The length of lactation in an Angus cow is for as long as she has her calf on her, which is around 6 to 10 months.

There really is no difference between Angus beef and "regular" beef. Pure Angus beef may have a bit more marbling to it and be a bit more tender, juicy, and (to some) be more bland than "regular" beef, but in reality, a Shorthorn or Speckle Park steer will often have the same sort of marbling quality. Because when the hide comes off, they all look the same.

She can be any age. She can be culled as early as her being two years of age, or as old as 15 years or more.

The inclusion of the Angus bull is irrelevant to this question since the bull has no control nor part in the length of a cow's gestation period. Expect a Hereford-cross cow to have an average gestation period of around 285 days long, plus or minus a few days.

He will keep reproducing until the rancher decides to slaughter him for hamburger or sell him to the slaughter plant. A bull, if he keeps his good temperament and doesn't start getting aggressive or gets injured somehow, can be able to breed past 15 years of age.

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There's really no Special feed to give to Angus cattle. Just feed them according to what the need, nutritionally and bodily. If you have good pasture, just throw them out on pasture. If you are wanting to fatten them up for slaughter, any kind of grain like corn, barley, soybean, etc. is good. They can also eat hay (be it grass, legume or grass-legume mix), any sort of feed that you'd give to any other breed of beef animal.

In the United States and the southern portions of Canada, Angus is the breed that brings the best price to a farmer/rancher when sold through the auction or salebarn.

Angus cattle are ready for butchering between the ages of 14 to 24 months of age. Be sure, though, that they already have good weight and body condition if you plan on butchering them. They won't offer too much meat if they're too fat or too thin.

Angus cattle function the same way that all other cattle do: they are herbivorous animals that are used to eat grass in pastures or rangelands and put on weight to produce beef. Angus cattle are beef cattle, which means they are raised and killed for their meat.

Up to 2200 lbs.