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Caracu:
adaptability, roughness e excellent maternal skills
Present in Brazil since the Colonial Period, Caracu is
the European breed most adapted to the tropical weather
in Brazil. With over four centuries of selection, Caracu
today reunites important qualities and is more and more
required in the cattle-raising segment, especially for
industrial cross.
The
roughness aquired through the years provided the breed
less need for food and more resistence to parasites,
besides it increases their longevity. All these features
guarantee the producer a significant economy relating to
the use of other european breeds for crossing.
Since
1980 a new breed selection fase was started with the use
of the most modern selection techniques and genetic
improvement, headed by the Caracu Breeders Brazilian
Association (ABCC). Its importance on national
cattle-raising has a special attention of big entities,
like the Zootecny Institue of Sertãozinho (IZ), Embrapa
– Beef Cattle (Campo Grande/MS) and Agronomic Institute
of Paraná (IAPAR), carring out Caracu related researches
up to now. In less than thirty years Caracu has been
showing na acelerated evolution on its performance, in
many ways, always keeping intact its roughness
characteristics.
The female present a big fertility rate, good body
structure, ease in labor, a big quality dairy production,
and a good chest structure. Its excellent maternal
skills, is not only a very required feature for
industrial crossing, but it also makes this breed highly
recomended to be used on the receiver market.
Regarding the male, stand out the good results on field
crossing, beeing Caracu one of the few european breeds
that show a good performance in natural crossing
programs on the tropics.
With a
desireble carcass performance, the crossed Caracus keep
the hematoses advantage. It is possible to work with
natural crossing and the stock get an accessible market
price. Even comparing them to the stocks (5/8) of
synthetic breeds, the Caracu bull gets the upper hand,
such on resistence as on the heteroses - 100% on
half-blood products.
Another fact that demonstrates its multifunctionality is
the fact that it can be used on rotacionados crossing
with female F1 (1/2 blood) of other breeds, mantaining
the medium heteroses. That’s the reason it’s been
broadly used on the adjusted compound formation.
Before
so many qualities, Caracu emerges strongly in the market,
as a modern competetive breed, going and meeting the
breeder interests who searches a european cattle
adjusted to the production systems on industrial
crossing.
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