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Value of a Brahman Cross on Native and Grade Beef Cattle in Southern Louisiana

Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

This work was originally outlined in 1927 by Professor E. L. Jordan, the professor of Animal Industry at Louisiana State University, and work was begun by the author and Professor Jordan in 1928. The University had at that time a herd of grade beef cows, about 80 in number, mostly native cows and half-blood Herefords, with a small group of good grade Aberdeen Angus cows. A high grade Brahman bull of good individuality and beef type having probably 1/16 Hereford blood was purchased from a local Brahman herd. The cows showing Aberdeen Angus breeding were bred to an Aberdeen Angus bull, and the remainder of the herd divided among the Hereford, Shorthorn, and Brahman sires. The Brahman and Hereford groups were made as nearly equal as possible in type and breeding, and those two bulls were exchanged the second year of the test; the Brahman being placed with the group previously bred to the Hereford and vice versa. In 1931, the Shorthorn bull was disposed of and the high grade Hereford, Shorthorn and Brahman heifers have been bred to Hereford bulls.