Charolais cattle are native to France, with large size, rapid growth, high slaughter rate and famous, is currently the world's largest beef cattle breed, adult bull weight 1100-1200 kg, cow 700-800 kg. White hair, deep ribs on the chest, thick back, full muscles, early growth, the highest daily weight gain of fattening reached 1.88 kg, the annual weight of up to 500 kg, the weight rate of 62-70%.
Purebred Charolais cattle are more expensive, farmers can not afford to buy, and purebred cattle breeding conditions are high, as beef cattle breeding is not cost-effective, can only be breeding sperm for artificial insemination to improve local cattle, breeding beef cattle can only buy hybrid cattle fattening.
Since the hair of Charolais cattle is white, most cattle owners do not like the color of this cow. That is, the time of artificial insemination of cattle in the countryside is free, and farmers are reluctant to choose the semen of Charolais cattle.
Charolais cattle are large beef cattle and are difficult to manage, but the feed utilization rate is similar, and large beef cattle are similar to small beef cattle, such as Highford consumes 8.38 kg of dry matter per day, and Charolais cattle consume 8.23 kg. According to the daily weight gain, the early maturing breed has a short time to emerge, such as Haifu and Charolais cattle, charolais cattle gain 1.38 kg per day, while Hai ford is 1.33 kg. The coat color of Haifu cattle meets the requirements of the Chinese people to breed cattle, and it is small and easy to manage, and the general farmers like to breed Haifu cattle.
Charolais cattle are large beef cattle and are generally bred in pens, and Highford hybrid cattle can be grazed in the same way as native cattle.
