BELMONT BONSMARA RED
Tuli embryos from South Africa which culminated in Boran and The ambition has been completed. The surrogate dams Tuli weaners being discharged from a Russian Antinov aircraft, commenced calving – Then another disaster! Pestivirus. A out of Cocos Island, into Melbourne and Rockhampton. disease, which has not been a major problem in calving cattle in Central Qld previously, spread through many herds and many As one of the participants tritely described the following months breeds. Calves premature through to full term twins were still and years of embryo selection, implant, success and failure, “I born. It was totally unexpected and prompted the development wouldn’t have missed it for quids, and there were plenty of them! of a vaccine which we have today; but it reduced our numbers dramatically. There were enough successes to establish the Boran and Tuli breeds and even more importantly, for us, this event opened the The survivors were gratefully received and so the Bonsmara door for the first importation of Bonsmaras in a joint venture breed had arrived from Africa. More embryos entered from the organised by Swin Hudson, between Tremere Pastoral and USA, and the gene pool expanded. It was a final success which Arthur de Villiers and Son, one of the leading Bonsmara breeders none of us would have missed for quids. in South Africa.
DID YOU KNOW?
Bonsmara are a tropically adapted Bos taurus breed. Performance recording is the cornerstone of their development. They are the dominant breed in South Africa, where some 60,000 registered females are currently being performance recorded with the commercial and seedstock herds, adding to around 4 million head.
Bonsmara Bull
Some 400 Bonsmara embryos were first imported into Australia in 1998 from the Republic of South Africa, followed by semen from the USA. The Bonsmara Cattle Breeders Society of Australia (BCBS of A) was formed in 2000, and there are now over 3000 Bonsmara infused cattle in the country.
Bonsmara Bull
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