| PARTHENAIS Powerful - Profitable - Pleasurable |
• Attractive Double Muscled Cattle
• Generally Easier Calving
• Fertile, Hard Working Bulls
• Suits Most Systems
• Hard Black Feet
• Excellent Terminal Sire in Commercial Suckler and Dairy herds
• Parthenais sired Females Sought for Suckler Replacements
• High Killing Out % and Meat to Bone Ratio
• Superb Eating Quality Beef
• Lower Cholesterol than Chicken
• Steaks Cut from Forequarters
• Top Carcass Value
This magnificent breed is proving itself in Britain for all the above positive reasons, providing high quality beef from commercial stickler herds, as well as when used on Holstein/friesians, from which the heifers are particularly sought for suckler replacements.
Originating in the mid western region (Deux Sevres) of france the breed is now recognised as a national breed from a regional breed, as it continues to make strides in its native country. This has been aided by the hard breeding policy where only the very best are retained. Both bulls and cows are intensively culled, with the calving ability of each cow assessed, together with the growth and quality of the first, second and third crop of calves.
Those cows with good maternal characteristics, high fertility together with their third calf approved, have documented records and are retained as breeding stock. Of these the highest performing cows with superior conformation are then registered as' elite', and it is from these elite cows that breeding bulls are selected.
The breed is double muscled, although not excessively so, and always weighs deceptively heavy, as do the crossbreds. Bull birth weights are around 44kg, maturing to 1250kg, with cows to around 900kg. The bulls like nothing more than plenty of work to cope with, being extremely fertile and vigorous.
Due to the Parthenais' excellent finishing qualities crossbred animals and carcases when exhibited continually make prize winners, and invariably top the commercial markets with prices. So try this breed for yourself today, and do the best you can for your beef, by putting the Parthenais where it works the best and is the best -that's in your herd!
