Why Speckle Park?

History

The Speckle Park breed emerged in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1937 with the breed developing from a combination of Teeswater Shorthorn, English White Park and Aberdeen Angus. The name Speckle Park came from beef breeders Bill and Eileen Lamont of Maidstone, SK in 1958. In 2006, the Speckle Park breed became officially recognised by Minister for Agriculture in Canada. In 2007, Australia welcomed the breed and it has been an ever expanding breed across both Australia and New Zealand. 

Speckles are a medium sized, good doing British breed. Moderate birth weights, early maturing and consistently high carcass yield make them ideal for achieving hybrid vigur. 

The Colour patterns 

Speckle Park Cattle have four distinct colour patterns; white, black, speckled and leopard. All pure-bred Speckles have black points (of the nose and ears). 

Your breeding goals can be successfully matched both with our genetics and colour patterns. Some producers prefer to cross their Angus cattle with a black Speckle and this will assure you have 100% solid black calves with the added benefit of brtish breed hybrid vigur. Similarly, when crossing a pure black Angus with a white Speckle, the progeny will be all speckle patterned animals. 

How does it work?

In the diagram above, you will find a guid of the colour patterns you may expect to get when breeding Speckles. 

White- White body with black points 

Speckled- characteristic black and white pattern. 

Black- fully black coat 

Leopard- characteristic of a grey leopard pattern with black points.