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Oei) beffaio
attle with the
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'Lloyd Lostell + R. R. #3, Kipper', is
gambling that beefalo really are "the cattle
with the golden future"• as claimed by their
original breeder.
Beefalo re hybrid cattle - a purebred
beefalo le,,,aft buffalo and part domestic
cattle.
The hybrid strain was developed by Bud
BSQ10, a California rancher who started
trying,to cross buffalo and domestic attle in
the 1950'4.`
The idea behind fla solo's experiment was
to develop an animal that could44.Qaised on
s andother roughage to save on costly, •
feed grains and an animal that could
withstand more extreme temperature
rangeS.
In 1971; Basolo was successful in
overcoming the problem of sterility in hybrid
" cattle and the beefalo vas born,
Before going into the cattle, the Lostells
had raised goats and rabbits, but "now the
beefalo are .takiiig up most of their extra,
time.
The coupel hope the Ontario Beefalo
Assosiation will be ,able to have a booth at
the loternation at oirlwineMatch to introduce
the hybrid strain to mor' farmers.
.Mr. Lostell, who is a direCtor of the
assoc ion and, his wife Worked. in a booth
sponsored by the association at the Royal
Winter Fair last winter.
More Interest'
Mr. Lostell said although the beefalo were
originally- introduced mainly in Western •
Canada, the president of the Canadian
Beefalo Association said •now there is more
interest 'in the animal being shoWn in
*"Ontatid"than the West.
Mr. Lostell said five people in the Seafreth
area are raising beefalo calves.
own breeding has crossed herefords
and Charolais with beefalo.
Bud. Basolo, the Ldevelope o he' `hybrid
strain has been quoted ayin• e one
breed of , domestic cattle w ich ca ' be
little material he comes mainly from
Western Canada.
Beefalo semen is now available in this
province, but until recently, had to be,
Western
shipped
Canada.
infrorri-either the United States or'
1.4stlearthe-tbStells seen their holidays
inWeStern Canada and visited other beefalo
breeders.
Joe's Pride, one of Bud 'Basolos's original
beefalo bulls,, was sold to a Canadian
breeding firm, Algar Holdings of Calgary,
for $21/2 million when the 29 month o9id bull,
weight 2,400 pounds. Semen from the bull
`was then sold to other Canadian breeders.
In the past year, the , syndicate has
,,returne returned Pride t s o the Basolo ranch
California.
Eight Years t,
Although the Lostells are building up their
herd, it will be at least eight,yeart before
they produce a purebred beefalo which ,
matches 'Basolo's formula.
However, their halfblood calves' weigh
between 45 to 72 pounds at birth and sorneof
the better calves have gained up to 130
pounds in '29 days,
The Lostells aferet'selling-many,• of ,-Oreir .-
• calves in the meantime, since this could slew •
'the breeding .process down.
The .*i.uple did have one their
, halfbloods ,Sliughtered recently, and noticed
'a.difference hi tlikrireat immediately.
• Mrs. Lostell.-said.the niteit cooks • faster,
there .is 'ariy fat, :particularly the
hamburg; and the meat his a finer grain:
This reporter, given some beefalo meat to
-0rok, can vouch that there V.v..,as virtually no
fat when the harnhurg was cooked and the
meat tasted very much like ground' beef.
' The facts ,that beefalo can. thrive on
roughage, gainweight' and have
docile dispositions, all count heavily in, their
.• favour.
The neitlfeW'years will tell how widely the
-' beefalo are accepted by ,cattlemen across'
Canada and the .United Stated.
In' the meantime, the Lostells are
enthusiastic spokesmen for the new cross-
breeds. But at the same time, Lloyd Lostell
is keeping his eye on 'American experiments •
crossing Brahma bulls with domestic cattle.
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The Ontario Bean Growers
Co-operative has received
permission ,from Hibbert
Township council qto
temporarily ptit a trailer on
four, properties in the town-
ship for the construction of
'liquid manure tanks.
Building •permits will be
issued to the property
owners so they can proceed
with erecting the tanks. •
The village of Dublin re-
ceived permission, to extend
a drain on the north side of
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A Lostell beefalo
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successfully crossed with' the buffalo a e
tattle with Angus blood. ,
The cross Basolo himself 'p •ferS is 3/8
buffalo, 3/8 Charolais and,'/, h• eford.
Since the California rancher dev o t ed the
heefalo strain, semen has been d to
Pakistan, Guyana, Venezuela, and. Nige,ia
as well as Canada.
Cactus
structed to prepare a bylaw °Tuesday, August 29. cattle. - F, their cattle, they
ed
for a zoning change for the . Council also accepted a ' Mr. Lostell, who works' at Ben dix in . the calves which" will be s have
Anglican'Church lot on High- tender from Ross Scott Hensalf, said-his farming ijsed to be' strictly produced black. beefalo ca rid blue-
way 8. The zoning for the Fuels, Brucefield to supply a jrobby, -but since hens gone into beefalo, coloured calves.' ,
property will be changed. • fuel for the township garage. - • The most distinctive trait of the calves is
from institutional to re- , it's a bobby no longer.' ,
Also, a title drainage bat- The farmer started his herd with a half their heavy navels - looking across the field,
sidential. • , rowing bylaw for $1:5,000 was beefalo bull which he saw advertised in a it! s easy to assume the calves-are all steers.
After a discussion of the . passed for three properties-in local newspaper. The bull' is now two and a '. Also, the beefalo ball can be bred to a
money remaining in the 1978 the township. The payments half years Old, and 'the Lostells Wave a polled domestic cow and the calf might still
will be made ' at the number of calves which are one-quarter
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_ kusucon.-rof the township. road-superintenden -.
, The council approved .the
application at their. monthly
meeting on Aug. 8. ,
, The co-operatives plans to
put a trailer on the site for a
temporary • office until a
permanent building and
storage area are cpnstructed
sin the future.
The trailer will be priced
on the lit in accordance, with
the restricted area. by-law
for the, township.
The Ministry of the
Environment issued
certificates of compliance for purposes, council instructed September council meeting. beefalo.
Temporary trailer office
okayed in Hibbert
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John Street to relieve
drainage problems at the •
east end of the street. The
work will be supervised. by
Ernie Harburn, the township
Since the beefalo can eit, sage, cactu
After.the presentation of a branches; straw, gr s andqether roughag Extension Drain. , on h Farm and Country show in 1976 and was petition from a repre- •
sentative of the Dicoese ofthe E.1-1:Uderstadt, is going to animals.
The 'township engineer, attracted by the idea of starting a herd of the it's lipped the ant an be raised in les
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premium. •
developed countrie where land „ is at ,
The Lostells said
Synod of Huron, Clerk
Charles 'Friend was in-
the, road superintendent to
continue for another half
mile of construction on Con-
cession 4/5.'
Originally, council had ,
hoped to do 21/2 miles of the
road but on re-assessing the
budget after 11/4 mile of
construction they realized
there were only enough s
road budget or construction ,
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read the Worden, Melady
and Kleinfeldt Drains on
funds to finish V2' mile" more
of the. road.
A petition was received
and accepted from James
Gardiner for, repair and im-
provement on the' finer
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By 1974, Basolo had. over 5,000 head of
beefalo and the- c,alves were weighing
between 50 and 65 ,Pounds at birth, were
strong and strated Sticking fight away, like
their buffalo ancestors.
Also, the calves gained weight faster than
domestic calves and some beefalo, reached a
weight of 1,000 pounds in nine' months.'
Hardier
Basolo claims his beefalo are hardier an
more disease resistant than beef cattle. For
example, buffalo never suffer from pinkeye,
and it's hoped the same will prove true -of
beefalo.
Lloyd Lostell first heard about the beefalo
Today, he has '25 halfblood beefalo and is
d;staunch defender of 'the new breed of
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be born with horns. However, 70 per cent of
he beefalo calves born to the Lostells have
been polled. " 4
Lostell said this year he bred his 'cows to
ten differeat.bulls to see which wilfproduce
the better calves.
Another. trait both Lostell and 'his wife
have noticed in the beefalo calves, is that
when they charge something or someone in
thelield, they tend to go through their prey
rather- than around, another trait inherited
from their buffalo ancestors. '
New Strain
SZcethe beefalo hybrid strain is relatiirely
new, Mr. Lostell has found it difficult to get
literature on breeding the .cattle and what
nevi r of
hen they cross
r know the co
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