Benefits
Profitability
- Valuation: Calf crossed with Senepol worth 40% more than the Zebu, generating greater revenue production.
Rusticity
- Heat Tolerance: According to research from USP and EMBRAPA, Senepol completely adapted to heat and has a body temperature lower than the Zebu.
Resistance: Minor infestations of ectoparasites (ticks and flies).
- Management: Both animals pure as the Crusaders do not need different management systems, are usually raised on pasture without demands.
- Adapted: A rustic Taurus and adapted, without incidence of skin cancer and eye, with dark hull resistant to all types of soil.
Fertility and Earliness
- Libido: A bull covers up to 50 cows in the field
- Longevity: It is common to see females Senepol at age 18 still playing.
- Efficiency: Product Crossing Senepol is shot with @ 18, until a year before the zebu.
- Economy: The handling of the Senepol preserves their heritage, not destroy the facilities (corral brete, gate etc).
- Safety: Reduce the rate of zero accidents to the workforce.
Maternal Ability
- Calving ease: Their fifilhos born with an average of 30kg, also indicated for heifers.
- Maternal: The females are excellent mothers Senepol, it is common to see many calves sucking on the same array.
- Docility: The females crossed with Senepol are docile and do not attack the cowboy (the offspring can be handled without risk).
Uniformity
- Standardization: Your children are red (dark / light), creating uniformity in calves (owl at zero, heavy weaning etc.).
- Character owl: standardizes and mocha to 95% of the production, eliminating the labor to “mochação.
- Calves: their children have only one standardization, eliminating the time of disposal (waste)
Quality
- Beef: It has a more tender meat from cattle.
- Health: There has estranged fat (marbling), showing a healthy meat, tender and extremely tasty.
- By zero: Has at zero, suitable for any female F1, removing excess hair.
- Weaning weights: At the intersection with Senepol weaning ranges between 220kg and 260kg.
- Housing: Testing conducted by USP show an average yield of 54%.
- SFT: subcutaneous fat thickness of 5.6 mm on average data provided by USP.
- Loin eye area: At intersections with Senepol, on average 81.8 cm2 (USP).
- Shear Strength: Assessment made by USP – 2.62 strength, proving the tenderness of meat.
- Loss of water in cooking: Only 12.95%, confirming the quality, flavor and juiciness.