Embryos and Donors available Piedmontese Breed
EMBRYOBOV is available for the production of NATURAL EMBRYO ("in vivo") exclusively in breeding
- Embryos are produced in a natural way and completely in breeding. The donors are the mares or heifers of their own breeding which only after rigorous health and gynecological tests are chosen for superovulation. We pay particular attention to the selection of donors and bulls for the ease of birth index to obtain embryos that can be used safely on recipients of any breed and also on heifers. Embryos are available selected according to the breeding line taken from donors with a high genetic value and fertilized with bulls with a high calving ease index. It is possible to choose among the reproducers available in the breeding, agree on a mating and book the embryos according to your requests by selecting the available donors button and calling us. Only top quality embryos are collected and frozen. We can ship our embryos to any country in the world and we have a good number of embryos ready for the USA, South America and Australia.
The Piedmontese Breed
The Piedmontese bovine breed is an autochthonous bovine breed of Piedmont, but with very ancient origins. From archaeological finds, rock inscriptions and fossil remains it is assumed that the current Piedmontese breed bovine derives from a cross between the Aurochs type bovine breed already present in the Pleistocene in the north-western areas of present-day Piedmont and a race of Zebu originating from the Indian continent (western Pakistan) which migrated to Europe 25,000/30,000 years ago.
Characteristics
The breed has good adaptability to breeding in different altimetric zones, from the plains to high altitude pastures, from which also derives a high longevity. Due to its robustness and strength, in the past this breed was also used for work and for the production of milk. Compared to other meat breeds, however, the milk production is higher and often, once the needs of the calf have been covered, the breeder uses the milk for the production of typical cheeses of the region such as toma, castelmagno, raschera.
With the development of agricultural mechanization, a focus was placed on favoring the aptitudes of the animals for meat production and, starting from the sixties, on identifying the specimens most suitable for this purpose. A type of bovine was therefore selected (part of the Piedmontese breed). the so-called "fassona" or double rump.
This peculiar characteristic of the Piedmontese breed called muscular hypertophy or double rump or Fassone is due to a natural mutation of the gene which codifies myostatin, a protein which limits muscle growth. The diffusion of this mutation was then selected by the breeders and by the selection center for the bulls of the Piedmontese Breed "ANABORAPI" since the mid-twentieth century up to a point where almost all the animals in the herd book possess this characteristic and a very high percentage of the breed as a whole. The quality of the meat is therefore linked to this particular morphological characteristic expressed by muscular hypertrophy at the level of the thighs and buttocks, but almost all over the body and by a complex of anatomical peculiarities (thin skin adhering to the muscles, small head, trunk long, short and thin tail, slender but sturdy stichicles) such as to configure the Piedmontese breed of cattle among the best breeds in the world for the production of meat. Furthermore, the almost total absence of subcutaneous fat makes the meat of this breed tender and lean and particularly renowned. The characteristics of the meat, the yield at slaughter, the adaptation to the most marginal lands, the longevity, the robustness have meant that this breed has gradually been bred also in other Italian regions and in Italy in 2017 the third bovine breed more bred.
At the end of the 1980s in Canada, starting from cattle from Piedmont, a local breed of cattle was obtained, now known as the North American Piedmontese, which later spread to the United States of America as well. At the end of the nineties, a project was started for the qualitative and quantitative improvement of beef production in China, as the aptitude of the Piedmontese breed was now widely recognized for the purpose of improving the final product both in the first generation crossbreed and in the three-way (see ART Bosticco) so much so that in China the breed is appreciated above all for its role as a crossbreed. From statistical analyzes on the sales of Piemontese breed semen it is evident how many countries (Morocco - Venezuela - Ecuador - USA) appreciate this breed and the possibilities of spreading the breed through the export of the semen and embryos are in any case ways to go both from institutions and private individuals.