Relaunching Tuli around the world, from Zimbabwe to Australia

[HARTWOOD TULI]

Podcast featuring Jack Milbank and Rebecca Arnott on Embryo Flushing by Dr. Udo Mahne of Tuli cattle on Hartwood Farm in Queensland Australia. looking forward to everyones thoughts on the podcast.

Relaunching the Tuli breed in Australia with Jack Milbank

Nuffield Scholar Jack Milbank is undertaking an ambitious project to relaunch the Tuli breed in Australia. Renowned for their fertility, hardiness, tick resistance and meat quality, this African Sanga breed has been cited as having the potential to add $200m to the northern beef industry.

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[greybeard]

So Tuli is Sanga but Sanga is not always Tuli..making Tuli a composite breed.. ?
What genetics did L. Harvey use to create Tuli in his breed up program?

 

[andybob]

So Tuli is Sanga but Sanga is not always Tuli..making Tuli a composite breed.. ?
What genetics did L. Harvey use to create Tuli in his breed up program?

Sanga breeds (Bos Taurus Africanus) are represented by various locally adapted genotypes, and include Tuli, Mashona Tswana and Nguni. Len Harvey noticed a distinct genotype within the Tswana type cattle was more robust, and was better able to handle droughts and fodder shortages than the average in the Tuli area of South western Matabeleland. The foundation cattle for the Tuli breeding program were selected from these cattle, and no other genetics were introduced, so are fullblood Tswana, with thousands of years natural selection in their ancestry. The breed was not intended as a commercial breed, but rather as a multiplier herd to supply a better genotype bull to the local tribesmen to improve their commercial traits without compromising their hardiness - commercial cattlemen managed to buy stock at a later date when the breeding herd was selling off surplus cattle.