Cattle Breeds

Bonsmara cows are beef cows that are a bit blocky in appearance, and have deep red colouration.

Ajax are not a breed but are Angus/Jersey cross.

Most dairy cows are great nurse cows. Jerseys and Holsteins are one of the more common nurse cows that can be used on beef operations to raise orphaned calves on.

Brahmans were already in the United States because that's where the breed was developed. So Brahman cattle would've been in a few places in the South (besides Texas) when and after the breed was being developed in the early 1900's.

No breed is quieter than another. Cattle are not like dogs where it depends on the breed how noisy they are. Any breed can be just as noisy or quiet as the other.

At a farm that raises Dexter cattle.

Bos primigenius indicus.

Striped is a more looser term for the proper term being "brindle," which is also called tiger-striped. Brindle colour patterns are obtained by breeding a wild-type bull or cow with a cow or bull that has an allele for black pigment in the hair. As such, crossing a Hereford-Red Angus cow with a White/grey Brahman bull, or a Braford cow with an Angus bull or a Brangus cow with Hereford bull will produce a calf with this brindle phenotype. Crossing Hereford with Jersey will almost always result in a brindle calf as well.

Please see the related link on coat color genetics below. Refer to page 6 of 22 for information on how the Brindle pattern is obtained in the pdf link below.

They were Spanish longhorned cattle, which became known and named Texas Longhorn cattle, and were recognized as a breed.

There is no other name.

In India, yes. However they are referred to as "premier draft breeds," though champion can also be a word for it.

The average cow in Wisconsin produces roughly +20,000 lbs a year in lactation.

A Gir (also spelled Gyr) is a breed of bovine of the Bos indicus species. It is one of the main Zebu breeds of India, used for both dairy and beef production, and has been used for the improvement of such breeds as the Red Sindhi, the Sahiwal, and was used as one of the breeds in the development of the American Brahman. Check out the Oklahoma State University's Breeds of Cattle page below in the related links for more info.

Charbray (an actual breed), or a Char-Brahman F1 crossbred bovine.

Primarily for beef production. Historically, Limousins were also used for draft and even dairy production.

This a strange question, since how they act depend on what situation they are put in. If they're in a calm environment they will act calm. If they are put in a stressful environment they will act like they are stressed.

Most Hereford cows will be productive until they are around 10 to 15 years of age. Some may be older, depending on the productivity of the herd and her genetics as far as productivity is concerned.

Location? Population of this breed is hard to justify when no location is given.

Limousins are found all over North America (USA and Canada), as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Limousins are one of the most popular Continental breed in Canada and the United States, and can be found almost anywhere. Check out the local livestock sales listings in a local agricultural/farm newspaper or magazine or by doing a search on the Internet for Limousin farms near you.

To get a purebred bovine (not necessarily a cow), you have to do a lot of breeding-up in order to have your cows and bulls producing the same type of offspring that their parents are. This takes years and years of work to do, and is much harder for one person to do than it does for several people to do.

How it's done is that you select the best quality bull that has all the traits that you want your new breed to have. Then you find a cow of another breed and breed that cow with that bull to get the calf you are wanting to use to start breeding up to produce offspring that are to be recognized as a separate breed and not just a crossbred. Then you can throw in one or two (or even more) breeds into the mix to get the type of breed you want. You have to keep doing this with the breeds you've selected and the offspring you've ended up with (making sure you cull out the undesirable or inferior offspring, cows and bulls) until you find you are getting more uniformity in the herd, and not just a herd of mutt-cattle. After getting others interested and helping with the breeding-up program and after another 10 or 20 or even 50 years of consecutive breeding-up and trait selection, naming the breed you've created and getting recognized by the national breeds council and what-not, you have your breed.

High growth and weight gain, carcass quality, etc.

If it is a beef cow it would either be a chianina or a charolais. A chianina has black skin and a charolais has pink.

It's either for beef or for breeding purposes.

The term is called dorsovertical position of the foetus. The reason may be physical rotation of the foetus during the process of delivery.

You are thinking of the oh-so-popular Holstein dairy cow, which are predominantly black and white. However, not most nor are all cows black and white. Many are brown, grey, black, white, yellow or buckskin, orange, red, and with variations of white in them, such as roan, white-face, speckled, dorsal-striped, etc.