Cattle Breeds

Cattle are identified using a variety of methods such as ear tags, tattoos, branding, ear notches, and electronic identification devices. These identification methods help keep track of individual animals for management purposes, traceability, and disease control.

Ayrshire is a popular breed of dairy cow. It has brown and white colouring.

The laughing gull maximum life expectancy is 22 years of age when in the wild. The adult weight is an average of 275 grams.

The scientific name for a Belted Galloway cow is Bos taurus.

The scientific name of humped cattle is Bos taurus indicus.

A Santa Gertrudis cow can live for 15 to 20 years, if she remains productive and is maintained properly so that she has a healthy life.

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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