Cattle: Mandalong Special

Country of Origin

Australia

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Australian Status

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 Uses

Beef

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Breed Traits

• Fast growing. Good milk supply. Easy calving - low birthweight calves grow rapidly, usually gaining 8 kilos a day.
• Big size when mature. At 16 months of age – live weight 527kg, chilled carcass 349kg, yield 66.22%, the highest any breed by 2.39% (Rick's website, Royal Easter Show Sydney result)
• Good evenly muscled body, plentiful muscle. Fat evenly distributed over carcass. 
• Most are polled. Some have short blunt straight horns.
• Colours - cream to deeper yellow dun shades to red.

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History

Developed in New South Wales from the early to mid 1960s by Rich Pisaturo on his property Mandalong Park, near Sydney. By 1980 he was selling purebreds of the new breed he'd formed. 

Charolais, Chianina, Shorthorn, British White, Brahman used. The percentage of those foundation breeds:

62.50% Continental Breed
18.75% British Breed
18.75% Bos Indicus

Many had been exported to Russia and a herd of 50,000 bred up there, but after the Soviet Union ended this herd disappeared. 

They were first shown at Canberra Royal in 1994.

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Breed Organisation

None

On Facebook: Charlton Park Beef Cattle

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Australian Population

2022 - 55 cows, 4 bulls with 2 breeders

Photo Credit

Mandalong Specials on Charlton Park Beef Cattle stud. (Permission kindly given to use here)

Page by Janet Lane, 2022

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