The organized effort by Texas cattlemen was known as the Long Drive. It involved herding thousands of longhorn cattle from Texas to railheads, which were locations where the cattle could be loaded onto trains for transportation to the eastern markets. The Long Drive played a crucial role in the development of the cattle industry in Texas and helped meet the high demand for beef in the east.

They can be both, though historically they were primarily horned.

These cattle were of no discriminate breeding or breed, they come in various colours and colour patters, where primarily horned and used for beef, milk and draft work.

Compared to what? Cattle with black coats? Brown coats?

A mature Charolais cow can weigh an average of around 1500 to 1800 pounds.

There isn't an "aggressive" breed, an animals behavior depends on how it was raised and their individual personality.

Aggressiveness can also be heritable. But "aggressiveness" could be too-strong of a word. Flighty, nervous, wild, etc. are words that could describe animals that are not aggressive but very unsure and nervous of human presence. Breeds like Limousin, Charolais, Maine Anjou, Black Angus and Salers all have selections for such genetic traits as docility.

However, aggressiveness does have implications as to not only how the animal is raised, but how it is (or was) handled, the environment it was raised in (out on the range where it only sees humans once or twice a year, or on a farm where it gets exposed to human contact at least twice a day), and even individual characteristics. A bull that has been handled a lot and seem very docile can suddenly turn into a mean killing machine in an instant, sometimes for no apparent reason. Even a cow can do the same. Often times the warning signs are there but so suttle that someone who has been around these animals for a long time doesn't see them.

So really, there is no aggressive breed, but there are breeds that are less docile than others, like those listed above.

A heifer calf will take 3 to 4 years to reach full maturity. By then she's called a cow. A Brahman heifer will most likely be ready to be bred by the time she's 15 months of age or older.

Cows mature at around 1200-1600 lbs. Bulls mature at around 2000-2500 lbs.

Finished feedlot steers/heifers would be around 1300 pounds.

* Wagyu * Welsh Black * White Galloway * Ankole/Watusi * White Park * Whitebread Shorthorn For the source and more detailed information concerning this subject, click on the related links section (Bovine Bazaar) indicated below.

A Belgian blue is an animal that appears to have way more muscle mass on it than normal. Some people think that it is caused by overdose of steriods, or "working out in the gym," both of which are false. The gene myostatin has been mutated to allow this double muscling to occur in this breed.

British cattle are those breeds that originated from Great Britain including England, Scotland and Ireland. The following are some of the British breeds:

- Aberdeen Angus (Black and Red)

- Hereford

- Shorthorn

- Galloway

- Dexter

- Kerry

- Scottish Highland

- Red Poll

- South Devon

Actually, there are longhorn cattle in Michigan, just not as many as you'd find in the more southern and southwestern states. The reason being is that the climate is too cold for them to thrive in like the would thrive in the south. Michigan winters are very hard on longhorn cattle, unlike other cattle like Herefords, Angus, or Simmental, for instance.

Most dairy cattle in North America are holstein- the black and white cows most commonly seen.

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The Santa Gertrudis cattle was originally bred at King Ranch, in Kingsville, Texas. Santa Gertrudis cattle are a cross of Brahman and Shorthorn.

Popularity is a huge disadvantage, as it is not nearly as well-known as other breeds like Angus or Scottish Highland. When you get a breed that isn't popular, that means it isn't very high in demand by other producers.

While it is highly advantageous for a grass-fed operation, it may not be as suitable for feedlot or grain-fed operations like Simmental or Charolais-bred or cross-bred cattle are.

Dairy cattle like Holsteins, Brown Swiss and Jerseys.

Of course!! Longhorns (Texas Longhorns, English Longhorns, etc.) are not a specific gender or sex of cattle, it is a BREED, just like Angus and Holstein and Simmental and Jerseys are. As with ALL breeds of cattle, there are both males AND females in that particular breed. If that breed only has one gender or sex, that breed wouldn't even be considered a breed, and if it was it certainly wouldn't last very long!

The cow will never produce anymore milk than she is capable of. Selective breeding is used to make her DAUGHTERS produce more than she. It's done be researching bulls who pass the greater milk ability onto his daughters.

Brahma cattle is a domestic breed developed from Indian stock. They have a hump between their shoulders and a dewlap. Angus is a breed of hornless cattle originating in Scotland. They have low, compact bodies and are known for their prized flesh.

A severely roach-backed cow. Other than that, there is no breed of bovine that has a hump on its back. Bos indicus cattle like Brahmans have humps, but that is over the shoulders, not the back.