Animal husbandry
“Gatsuurt" LLC is committed to developing both farming and animal husbandry. Based on traditional herding practice, we are in intensive animal farming and has achieved significant reform in BREED SELECTION of Mongolian animal husbandry sector where World’s leading beef breeds Angus, Holsteins breed of dairy cow or transplanting cells to mixed breed cattle have been achieved as a result of many years of hard work and for the first time in Mongolia, Angus breed cattle was bred as a herd.
In the year 2006, 2007 and 2008, advanced biotechnology in cattle breed selection was introduced for the first time and in 2007, Angus breed cattle embryo was transplanted into 816 mixed breed cattle and 98 Angus pure-bred calves were delivered. 20% of the total herd is bred as beef cattle breed Angus, 10% is beef cattle breed Limousin, 5% is dairy cow breed Montbéliard and Holsteins.
livestock population
| large cattle | |
| 7788 | |
| small cattle | |
| 3057 | |
| Angus | Limousin |
|---|---|
| 20% | 10% |
| Montbéliard | Holstein |
| 5% | 5% |
| large cattle | |
| 7788 | |
| small cattle | |
| 3057 | |
| Angus | Limousin |
|---|---|
| 20% | 10% |
| Montbéliard | Holstein |
| 5% | 5% |
Intensive animal farming capacity
Until highly productive livestock is let out in pasture, it takes 210 days of rising in regular feed environment.For this, we commissioned following facilities:
•Around 200 sheds
•Silage planted in 323ha
Breed, gene pool
Angus breed of cattle
Angus breed of cattle has a high carcass yield, bull weigh on average 908kg while cow weigh on average about 680kg. The dressing percentage of a live cattle is 60-70%. Angus breeds are well-suited for semi-pastoral animal husbandry, have high fertility rate, Angus cattle adapt and breed very well in any country. The breed is naturally docile and
Holstein and Montbelard breed dairy cattle
Holstein and Montbelard breed dairy cattle main herd was imported from France and are bred in an intensive animal
Limousin breed beef cattle
Renowned for its ability to pass on its genetics characteristics to their calves. They are well suited for variety of climate and able to adapt to any environment. Limousin is breed of highly muscled
Mongolian cattle
Selenge, Kalmyk, Mongol breed cattle has dual meat and dairy benefits; bull weighs 700kg while cow weighs 550kg. The dressing percentage of a live cattle is 47-50% and 55% of the
“Gatsuurt" LLC raise Mongol cow for breeding purposes, produced hybrid cattle breed with high dairy and meat yield in an effort to increase the herd’s value.
Dorper sheep
Dorper sheep are able to thrive in Mongolian climate, has high carcass yield, economical, fertile, it has 40-45% chance to produce twins when they are high in fatty. Adult purebred live weight is 88-91kg whereas 2-year-old male sheep weighs 70kg alive.
Saanen goat
Switzerland beautiful nature and climate led to its origin as well as many years of selection and specific breeding techniques