Idaho Aberdeen
Nab Ranch
526 North Road
Jerome, Idaho 83338
(208) 320-6629
Benefits Of Aberdeen Cattle
The average half-blood calf weights approx. 59 pounds.
The average three-quarter blood calf weights approx. 52 pounds.
The average full-blood calf weighs 42 pounds.
The average mature cow is 39 inches tall and weighs 800 pounds.
The average mature bull is 43 inches tall and weighs 1200 pounds.
Aberdeen cattle are not just another novelty breed. While they are naturally quiet-tempered, easy animals to raise, they are an extremely efficient range animal that produces a high-quality meat product. American Aberdeen's are also an outstanding new breed for the small acre ranch. Consider some important facts from the Australian research center:
Aberdeen's have superior carcass traits with 30% larger rib eye area per hundredweight than any other breed and excellent marbling.
Aberdeen feed requirements are significantly lower than larger sized animals-at one third the nutritional requirements of larger cross-bred cattle, American Aberdeen's will still yield 40% more retail product per acre.
Excellent ease of calving
Aberdeen's are black hided and naturally polled.
Highly adaptable to a wide variety of climates from Canada to the deep South.
Perfectly suited to a premium niche market for beef with a smaller portion, thick-cut steak of excellent tenderness and marbling.
Excellent mothering ability and short gestation length (271 days).
Aberdeen's are attractive, well-proportioned, and easy to handle.
Aberdeen's have a lifespan of 12-25 years, are good foragers; hardy, easy keepers.
Finish a tasty, well-marbled product on minimal grain.
Aberdeen's are extremely rare and offer an excellent value for seed stock producers to meet the growing demand for breeding animals.
Fullblood cattle can be registered through the American Aberdeen Breed Registry only after DNA testing to assure purity.
Extremely well-suited to intensive grazing situations.
Aberdeen's have been tested free of the dwarfism gene or the Anchondroplasia gene.
Consider the comparison data in the table below, provided by Trangie Research Center.
Average # of breeding cows per 100 acres.
Pounds of Average Carcass per head weight, at 15 months off grass
Pounds of carcass weight per acre
Retail carcass yield percentage saleable weight
Pounds of retail product per acre
The Aberdeen has been developed over the last 83 years by selective breeding of Fullblood Angus stock. This
animal and modern bio-technology are the answers to the profitability of cattle in the 21st century.
Aberdeen's can produce 70% of the rib eye area on 1/3 the feed of animals more than twice their size. This allows a stocking ratio of 2.2 (or more) to 1. The obvious result is that up to 54% more beef may be produced from a given pasture with smaller cattle.
This is the beef that counts—More Steaks! …..More high grade cuts per carcass and less waste. Better and Safer Beef.
Slightly smaller cuts light on external fat with choice or better grade. Small and rapidly maturing animals
means short and tender muscle fibers from younger animals. Aberdeen Beef adds 60% more of the good or
essential fatty acids the body cannot complete on its own and 36% more CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), a cancer and arthritis fighting fatty acid.
Free-ranging animals with no growth hormones, antibiotics, or exposure to confined feeding.
Nutrient dense, high in cancer and rheumatism fighting CLA, vitamins and minerals because they are naturally grass fed to maturity.
