At birth, Salers calves are typically long and slender and have small heads. This shape is a major contributor to the renowned calving ease of the breed. Birth weights of Salers-sired calves are usually between 30 and 40 kilograms and vary with age, size and breed of the dam.
A Grey Bull Newborn Salers are extremely active and aggressive sucklers. Salers females are usually very conscientious and vigilant mothers, often caring for other calves in the group as well as their own. Dingoes would have great difficulty in taking calves from Salers cows but weighing or tagging a newborn calf rarely presents a problem. The gregarious nature of Salers makes them easy to muster and work through yards.
Salers teats are normally very functional and udders are well attached and positioned out of harm's way. Longevity of the breed is excellent, so Salers cows can still produce efficiently at more than 10 years of age. This can mean big savings in costs for replacements.
 Salers normally have well hooded eyes with dark skin pigment around the eyes and teats and dark pigment on the eyeball itself. Eye cancer and pink eye in Salers and Salers-cross animals are virtually unknown.
A Salers bull over British or Bos Indicus breed cows can produce the extra muscle and growth normally sought from terminal sire breeds but without the calving difficulties and loss of eating quality.
Another big advantage with the Salers bull, is that the females produced can be retained as ideal replacement breeders. A second cross Salers is still an excellent animal for meat or as a breeder.
Salers bulls have been used over all the major British and Bos Indicus breeds in Australia with impressive results. Lines of uniform cattle have been produced which bring premiums in the saleyards or on the hook.
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Do Salers make More Money? |
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Peter Ford in Victoria sent a pen of 30-months-old Angus steers and a pen of 18 months old Salers/Angus cross steers that had been raised under similar conditions to the Wodonga Saleyards on the same day. Even though they were 12 months younger, the Salers-cross made $100 per head more. |
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Is there any value in the high libido of Salers Bulls? |
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Basalt Grazing Company of Rolleston, Queensland, used a Salers bull in each of two paddocks with seven or eight other bulls and 220 cows. In these two paddocks, the pregnancy rate was 96% while in another nine mating groups with similar numbers but without Salers bulls, the calving percentage was consistently 80%. This represents a 20% increase in production with no extra cost. |
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