Lim-Flex
A Limousin Angus hybrid with
the right blend
of muscle, maternal ability and profit.
What is a Lim-Flex?
A
commercial Lim-Flex must be 25 to 75 percent Limousin and 25 to 75 percent
Angus or Red Angus.
Lim-Flex offers
H Maximum hybrid vigour especially for maternal traits such as fertility.
H A combination of the muscle and efficiency of Limousin with the maternal and finishing ability of Angus.
H
Market flexibility - commercial Lim-Flex steers are ideal for all domestic
and most export markets so are in strong demand from grass finishers and
Flexibility
Production
of Lim-Flex cattle is simple. Join
a purebred Limousin bull to Angus cows or join a purebred Angus bull to Limousin
females to produce Lim-Flex calves.
Provided
the right genetics are used from the two breeds the resulting Lim-Flex
The
steer progeny will be highly sought after by the domestic market as vealers
or by the lot feeding industry supplying domestic and export markets.
The
cull female calves will also be eagerly sought by the lot feeding industry.
Lim-Flex
females can be joined to Limousin bulls to increase Limousin content or Angus
bulls to increase the Angus content. Alternatively
they can be joined to Lim-Flex bulls to maintain a consistent level of Limousin
and Angus content.
Colour and Horns
The
Lim-Flex calves from pure Angus cows will be 100 percent polled even if the
Limousin bull is horned. The calves
from black Angus will be predominantly black with only the odd red calf resulting
from a black Angus cow carrying a red gene.
Use
of black and polled Limousin or Lim-Flex bulls will ensure that a Lim-Flex
herd stays predominantly black and polled over successive generations.
"During the drought the Lim-Flex females as a group held their condition better, raised heavier calves and had a higher conception rate than either of our straight bred Angus or Limousin herds."
Quote from a breeder of Limousin, Angus and Lim-Flex cattle