Performance
Hardiness: Health key to self-sustainability in the tropics. Complete Environment for tropical ecology, the muscular and skeletal conformation Girolando ensure high strength and suitable for the environment: ticks, ticks, horn flies, worms, mastitis is controlled much more easily. Hoof problems hardly exist. Brachiaria pastures, sugar cane plus urea or chopped grass with little supplementation are already specialties Girolando to turn into milk and natural quality.
Fertility: Farrow to produce. The reproductive efficiency of Girolando is his strong point: short service period (60 days), calving interval ideal (360 days) and highest number of deliveries per cow (average of six births).
Both heifers and cows, do not offer delivery problems: establishing a strong year, without cesarean section and retained placenta.
Machine to produce milk: And the low cost.
Responsible for the largest portion of the milk produced in Brazil, there is clear affinity Girolando with our producer, the type of operation, its ownership and the market. The plurality of genetic Girolando allows its use on small farms in the settlements of family farms to large business of the milk with properties of more than 10,000 liters of milk per day in intensive production.
The average milk production per lactation is 4,400 kgs. (Two milkings a day) in 305 days, with 4.0% fat and 3.7% protein, accumulating a lifetime production of more than 20 000 kgs. milk.
Shelf Life: Milk the grandfather to the grandchildren. Longevity (produces up to 15 years), fertility (average of six births) and earliness (first calving at 30 months of age): virtues of Gir and Holstein farms, resulting in excellent production lifetime and a numerous offspring, which normally starts to 30 months, peak milk production reaches 10 years, extending well up to 15 years old.
Commercial use: Breeding animals to supply the market. The economic output of dairy farming comes from the sale of milk and animals.
We should emphasize that often, the marketing of cattle that "left over" in the selection of the herd is more significant than the sale of milk production per se.
The breed that is golden in the tropics, is now sold under contract, such is the demand and the increasingly growing interest by Girolando.
The landscape of farming exhibitions is one of the facts that prove the consolidation of Girolando more viable as the race for the country. We note in all events, the presence of increasingly expressive these animals and the quality keeps getting better.
Males with great skill in weight gain.
The termination of males Girolando feedlot can be practiced safely. This is one of the great advantages of Girolando: being conducive to the slaughter with good carcass yield in all the experiments we obtained a higher average gain of 1 kg / day.
The performance of Girolando also on pasture is enviable in all stages of production: raising, breeding and fattening.
Maternal ability. Besides the Gir calves born with excellent weight (35 kgs / mean) have a great growth rate, given the vigor of offspring and the ability to create the mother.
With the active temperament and docile grazing for milking without calf presence, together with other maternal qualities (both physiological and anatomical) features for receiving and donor embryos, emphasizing its great capacity of oocyte production, standing on the technique of IVF - In Vitro Fertilization.
