BEEF CATTLE BREEDS
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ANGUS

• In 1873 George Grant transported four Angus bulls from Scotland into the Middle of Kansas Prairie.
• Also between 1878-1883 twelve hundred cattle was imported mostly to the Midwest.
• Where from Scotland.

ANGUS

• The Angus cattle is mostly the color black and red.
• The average cow size in the Angus breeds is 1,390 lbs., with less than 100 lbs. separating the heaviest and lightest breeds.
• Angus cattle is a polled cattle

HEREFORD

• They are from Herefordshire,England and United Kingdom
• More than five million pedigree Hereford cattle now exist in 50 countries.
• The transport began in 1817 starting from the Kentucky going across the United States throw Canada and into Mexico.

HEREFORD

• weighs 3,000 pounds or more. Cotmore, a winning show bull and noteworthy sire, weighed 3,900 pounds when shown in 1839.
• There main color is white face and red body
• Hereford cattle are not polled

SHORTHORN

• Shorthorn cattle Is also called Durham.
• The Shorthorn cattle was developed during the last quarter of the 18th century.
• They are the only roan-coloured modern cattle.
• Shorthorns are practically found in every country of the world.
• The most popular breeds are in the British Isles.

SHORTHORN

• They can weigh up to 1,800 to 2,000 as an adult
• large cattle that inhabited this fertile valley early became known as Teeswater cattle.
• The Colling brothers, Charles and Robert, are often referred to as the founders of the Shorthorn breed of cattle.
• They are polled cattle.

MAINE ANJOU

• In 1839 the Count de Falloux, a landowner, imported Durham cattle from England and crossed them with the Mancelle.
• Mature bulls weighing from 2200 to 3100 pounds on the average
• The first Maine-Anjou imported into North America came to Canada in 1969.
• Their main body color is very dark red with white marking on the head,belly,rear legs and tail.
• The first Maine-Anjou imported into North America came to Canada in 1969.

MAINE ANJOU

• These cattle were then introduced to the United States through artificial insemination.
• 1969 the Maine Anjou Society Inc. was established.
• 1850 Durham were winning championships at the French agricultural fairs.
• They can be horned and also polled cattle

CHIANINA

• The Chianina is an Italian breed of cattle.
• One of the largest and oldest cattle till this day.
• They are both the tallest and heaviest breeds.
• They horned cattle.
• They can weigh from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds per male cow and female cow can weigh 800 to 1,000 pounds.
• Their skin color is black.

CHIANINA

• The Chianina breed is characterised by white hair and a black switch.
• They where imported from Italy in 1971.
• They also have a different name Calvana,Perugina,Chianina Del Valdarno and also Chianina Della Valdichiana.

CHAROLAIS

• Isa Cattle Company brought the Crescent J Charolais herd to Texas from Florida in 1998.
• One of the early influential herds in the region was started in 1840 by the Count Charles de Bouille.
• Breeders in the Charolles vicinity established a herd book in 1882.
• Charolais is white in colour with a pink muzzle and pale hooves, horned, long bodied, and good milkers with a general coarseness.
• There are now Charolais cattle being bred black and red in colour.

CHAROLAIS

• They can weigh 2,000 pounds.
• They have a discretion of world wide.
• In England, a bull of this breed has reached the weight of 2 ton.
• The breed was introduced in the southern US from Mexico in 1934.
• In the 1970s Charolais crossbred steers won a number of prominent steer and carcass shows particularly in Texas.

SIMMENTAL

• Total numbers are estimated between 40 and 60 million Simmental cattle world-wide.
• Guatemala imported the first Simmental into the Western Hemisphere in 1897, with Brazil following suite in 1918 and Argentina in 1922.
• The Simmental is among the oldest and most widely distributed of all breeds of cattle in the world.

SIMMENTAL

• As early as 1785, the Swiss Parliament limited exports because of a shortage of cattle to meet their own needs.
• Their colors are red and white spotted or gold and white.
• Simmental were reported as early as 1887 in Illinois, according to one source; in 1895 in New Jersey; and in both New York and New Mexico around the 1916 to 1920 period.
• Today, about 80% of the Simmental cattle in the United States are black, with the remaining 20% being red.
• They can either be polled or horned cattle.
• Can weigh between 1,200 to 1,500.

LIMOUSIN

• 1886 to ensure the breed's purity and improvement by only recording and breeding animals that satisfied a strictly enforced breed standard.
• Their coat light wheat to darker golden-red. Black Limousins also bred.
• The first Limousin herd book was then established in France in 1886 to ensure the breed's purity and improvement by only recording and breeding animals that satisfied a strictly enforced breed standard.

LIMOUSIN

• In 1971 they where imported from France into the United State.
• Naturally horned but often dehorned as calves. Polled Limousins also bred.
• Can weight between 1,000 to 1,100 pounds.
• Limousins were first exported from France in significant numbers in the 1960s and are now present in about 70 countries.
• They are naturally horned and have a distinctive lighter wheat to darker golden-red colouring.

BRAHMAN

• The Brahman or Brahma is a breed of Zebu cattle.
• The American Brahman was the first beef cattle breed developed in the United States.
• The American Brahman Breeders Association was formed in 1924 as the official herd registry to track and verify cattle bloodlines.

BRAHMAN

• Can weigh between 1,000 to 1,400'pounds.
• Main body color is gray and white.
• It is said that during the period from 1910 to 1920, many cattle in the south-western part of Texas and the coastal country along the Gulf of Mexico showed considerable evidence of Bos indicus breeding.
• Are either polled or horned.

BRANGUS

• The Brangus breed was developed to the superior traits of Angus and Brahman cattle.
• The effort to develop the Brangus breed began as early as 1912 and the first organization of Brangus breeders was chartered in 1949.
• There are now members in nearly every state, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Central America, Argentina, and Zimbabwe in Africa.
• The early breeders from 16 states and Canada met in Vinita, Oklahoma, on July 2, 1949.
• The original American Brahman cattle originated from a nucleus of approximately 266 bulls and 22 females of several Bos indicus (cattle of India) varieties imported into the United States between 1854 and 1926.

BRANGUS

• Brangus cattle are black or red, polled, with a sleek coat and pigmented skin.
• Mature Brangus bulls generally weigh between 1,800 and 2,000 pounds, while mature females generally weigh around 1,100 to 1,200 pounds.

TEXAS LONGHORN

• The Texas Longhorn is a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns, which can extend to 7 ft tip to tip for steers.
• Similar cattle were imported by Spanish colonists into other parts of North America, including California and Florida.
• Texas Longhorns are known for their diverse coloring.
• A longhorn can be any color or mix of colors, but dark red and white color mixes are the most dominant.

TEXAS LONGHORN

• Texas Longhorns with elite genetics can often fetch $40,000 or more at auction with the record of $170,000 in recent history for a cow.
• Between 1493 and 1512, Spanish colonists brought additional cattle in subsequent expeditions.
• Early US settlers in Texas obtained feral Mexican cattle from the borderland between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande and mixed them with their own eastern cattle.
• The varieties of color ranged from bluish-grey, and various yellowish hues, to browns, black, ruddy and white, both cleanly bright and dirty-speckled.
• They are horned cattle.
• They can weigh between 800 to 1,200

BEEFALO

• Accidental crosses were noticed as long ago as 1749 in the southern English colonies of North America.
• It was found early on that crossing a male bison with a domestic cow would produce few offspring, but that crossing a domestic bull with a bison cow apparently solved the problem.
• In 1965, Jim Burnett of Montana produced a hybrid bull that was fertile.

BEEFALO

• The Beefalo can vary greatly in appearance but generally it has a large frame and is well muscled similar in stature to the Bison.
• Beefalo calves are born small but grow very fast, cattle producers buy and breed Beefalo for the easier care of animals from weaned to sales auction market.
• They are not polled cattle.
• They can weigh between 800 to 900 pounds.

WAGYU

• From 1635 to 1868, the cow herd in Japan was officially closed by mandate of the Shogun.
• The original import of these cattle to the U.S. in 1976 consisted of two Tottori Black Wagyu and two Kumamoto Red Wagyu bulls.
• That was the only importation of Wagyu into the U.S. until 1993 when two male and three female Tajima cattle were imported and 1994 when 35 male and female cattle consisting of both red and black genetics reached the U.S.

WAGYU

• The word Wagyu refers to all Japanese beef cattle.
• Cattle were first introduced into Japan in the 2nd century to provide power for the cultivation of rice.
• Wagyu have a coat colour of black or red, their horns are straight to slightly curving forward and start off a whitish colour then darken to black at the end.
• Can weigh about 2,000 pounds.
• They are not polled cattle.

PIEDMONTESE

• Cows generally weigh around 550-600.
• Color white or wheaten with grey shading; black skin and switch.
• They are horned.
• Until the late nineteenth century there were numerous local types of Piedmontese cattle, including the Canavese, the Della Langa, the Demonte, the Ordinario di Pianura and the Scelta di Pianura.
• At the beginning of the twentieth century there were about 680,000 Piedmontese cattle in Italy; by 1985 this had fallen to about 600,000.[1] In 1957 the number registered in the herd-book was 851; by the end of 2011 it had risen to 267,243.

PIEDMONTESE

• The Piedmont region of northwestern Italy has for centuries been famous for its wines and its rich cuisine.
• They have garnered attention from breeders of beef cattle in other parts of the world, including North and South America.
• They were triple-purpose cattle, raised principally for draught power, but valued also for meat and milk.

BELGIAN BLUE

• In 1978 the Belgian Blue cattle were introduced to the United States through a man by the name of Nick Tutt, a farmer from central Canada who immigrated to west Texas showing surrounding Universities of this cattle.
• The condition was first documented in 1808 by a livestock observationist named George Culley.
• The modern beef breed was developed in the 1950s by Professor Hanset, working at an artificial insemination centre in Liege province.

BELGIAN BLUE

• The Belgian Blue has a natural mutation in the myostatin gene which codes for the protein,
• Blue-White; Belgian White and Blue Pied; Belgian White Blue; Blue; and Blue Belgian.[2] The Belgian Blue's sculpted, heavily muscled appearance.
• They are not polled cattle