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Drakensberger
This medium sized Drakensberger is indigenous to South Africa and was developed over a period of several centuries. After Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape in 1497 he briefly went ashore to acquire a black ox from the local native people in exchange for three bracelets.
Da Gama subsequently paid tribute to the excellent quality of its meat. This is history's first recording of the black cattle of the Cape. Nearly four hundred years later, at the time of the Great Trek, several Voortrekker families left the Cape to travel north with teams of the same black oxen then known by the name of Vaderland cattle. The Drakensberger’s exceptional reproductive drive, virile pre-potency, effortless adaptability to all environments and rugged hardiness makes it an ideal motherline breed for maximum and effective beef production and high economic returns.
