About Us

 

They are excellent foragers and food converters, thriving in the extreme heat of northern Australia as well as in Tasmania and all states in between.

 

Bazadaise are easy calving with muscle development starting at about 3 weeks.  Calves are born a wheaten colour, changing to grey from 3 to 9 months.  Generally, bulls are a darker colour, even to charcoal.

 

They have an orange pigment around the eyes, pink mucous membranes and dark hardened hooves.  Due to their short coat and thick hide, they have been found to be tick and fly resistant in the northern Australian climes.

 

Baleze have had a number of cattle tested with Gene-Star for genetic markers for tenderness and marbling, with outstanding results.  About 120 Bazadaise have been tested so far, and all have shown extremely high markers for both tenderness and marbling. This confirms the testing done earlier at the Department of Agriculture Research Station in Rutherglen in 1998, prior to these genetic markers being available, on Bazadaise/Angus cross 12 month old cattle showed excellent score for marbling, tenderness and taste.  Recent testing by DNRE in 2002 for cholesterol levels in beef:-  full blood Bazadaise beef was 51, Bazadaise/Angus beef was 53, the average cholesterol for beef is 77.  Obviously for human health, the lower the better.

 

In finished crossbred cattle, dressing out is around 60% or better.  Even more outstanding is the saleable meat yield of around 80%.  Butchers remark on the extra length of eye muscle which normally extends from the 12^th rib to the 7^th rib, but in Bazadaise, it extends to past the 4^th rib.

 

Backing up these findings to show what a Bazadaise bull can do in a cross breeding program, Baleze Bazadaise has won both Champion and Reserve Champion Carcass at several Carcass competitions in the last 12 months and, in fact, over a number of years has always scored extremely well in every carcass competition entered.

 

Baleze take pride in breeding quality cattle with quiet temperament and have bulls, females, embryos and semen available for sale.  For further information or to discuss any of your proposed breeding programs contact Faye Tuchtan on 03 56788366 mob 0411732987, or fax 03 56788247.