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to the
Boran Cattle Breeders' Society of SA |
The South African Boran
was founded out of a need by commercial farmers that
were tired of over managed and over fed animals and
started searching for the ultimate grass fed animal. It
had to survive in our country’s diverse climate and
handle periodic droughts without human intervention and
good management. We had two extremes, on the one hand
the perfect carcass animal (high maintenance & expense),
and on the other hand we had indigenous breeds (lower
income from abattoir penalties) that was just not
meeting our market standards. But there was nothing in
between and so the Boran came to fill the gap with an
acceptable carcass for our market with low to no input
cost (optimum income). |
