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What is Gelbvieh?
The Gelbvieh
breed is one of the oldest
Continental cattle breeds. They
originated in southern Germany
in Bavaria, in the late 18th and
early 19th century. They were
first imported into the United
States in 1971.
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Gelbvieh breed
Why Gelbvieh?
Gelbvieh calves
are widely recognized for
excellence (explosive) in
growth, feedlot efficiency,
muscling, and marketability,
while Gelbvieh females are known
for superior milking ability,
high fertility, and quiet
temperament. According to the
USDA Meat Animal Research
Center’s (MARC) Germ Plasm
Evaluation. Gelbvieh is the
only widely used breed that
excels in calving ease, milk
yield, retail yield, weaning
growth, and yearling growth
combined. Gelbvieh produce more
pounds of weaned calf per cow
exposed than any other widely
used breed.
Gelbvieh offers
the same genetic benefits in a
variety of phenotypic packages.
Commercial producers can select
from red Gelbvieh or black, and
from either polled or horned
Gelbvieh genetics. That’s one
more reason Gelbvieh fit so well
as the crossbreeding component
on British and Brahman-based
cows.
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What is a
Balancer?
A Balancer is a
specific hybrid with the
following breed composition and
documentation requirements:
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A combination of ¼ to ¾
Gelbvieh and ¼ to ¾ Angus or
Red Angus with a maximum of
1/8th unknown or other
breed, and
• The sire
and dam must be recorded by
an officially recognized
organization (AGA, American
Angus Association or Red
Angus Association of
America), and
• At least
75% of the pedigree must be
known and documented by the
AGA and/or another
officially recognized
registration association.
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Why Balancers?
Balancers offer a
simple and powerful way to
maintain hybrid vigor and the
proper blend of British and
Continental genetics in your
cowherd without complicated
crossbreeding systems. All
polled, red or black, registered
Balancers blend the Angus traits
of calving ease, moderate mature
size and marbling with
Gelbvieh’s growth, muscle,
leanness, fertility and
unequaled pounds of calf weaned
per cow exposed. Use registered
Balancer bulls to take advantage
of management convenience and
hybrid vigor in a single package
while producing cattle that fit
the pasture, the feedlot, and
the meat case. Documented
research proves that Balancer
hybrids offer the same
consistency as their purebred
parents with improved uniformity
of composition. Balancers are
registered seedstock, complete
with documented parentage and
EPDs.
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more about Balancers
To learn more
about the role of Gelbvieh and
Balancer cattle in Crossbreeding
systems, call AGA at
303-465-2333 and request a free
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