Cattle Breeds

Santa Gerts are known for their hardiness in hot humid weather like that down in the southern states, and have a high resistance to heat and ticks. They are also known for their great calving ease, mothering ability, and milking ability. Gerts show improved beef quality over the Brahman breed (thanks to the Shorthorn breeding), and are able to put on weight easily and efficiently in both the feedlot and on the pasture.

Angus, Red Angus, Red Poll, Galloway are a few breeds that are genetically hornless. Most other breeds, except Highlanders, Texas Longhorns, Florida Crackers/Pineywoods and other horned cattle, have been genetically modified to have both horned and polled cattle within the same breed.

The main breeds for each main sector is as follows:

Dairy:

- Holstein-Freisian

- Jersey

- Brown Swiss

- Ayrshire

- Guersney

- Milking Shorthorn

- Normande

- Randall

Beef:

- Angus

- Hereford

- Brahman

- Shorthorn

- Limousin

- Charolais

- Simmental

- Maine Anjou

- Red Angus

- Blonde d'Aquitaine

- Gelbvieh

- Brangus

- Beefmaster

- Bonsmara

- RX3

- Red Poll

- South Devon

- Boran

- Braford

- Simbra

- Belgian Blue

- Piedmontese

- Aubrac

- Texas Longhorn

- Pinzgauer

- Murray Grey

Longhorns live on farms and ranches just like all other cattle.

Most herefords are redish with white faces and a white mane, along with white on the dewlap down from the throat, inside the legs and white socks, and white on the belly and on the switch of the tail. Modern herefords also come as "red-necks" without any white on the top of their neck or on the throat area, and they also come in more brownish-red to a light brown. Others are found to have a deep red than normally seen on traditional herefords.

It is really a bull and looks exactly like a bull.

Highland cattle would be Bos taurus - they have thick coats of hair, small ears, a compact body and a small dewlap. Bos indicus cattle have the opposite - thin fine coats of hair, large ears, a rangy body and a large dewlap. These adaptations are to help cool the Bos indicus cattle in subtropical climates.

The most common Scottish breed in North America is the Angus breed. Other breeds that originated in Scotland include:

- Red Angus

- Scottish Highland

- Galloway

- Belted Galloway

- Ancient White Park (also originates in Wales and Great Britain)

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.

The Dexter breed is the smallest breed of cattle in the world that is not considered lowline nor miniature. There are many miniature cattle breeds but mainly the following:

Lowlines

Australian Lowlines

Aussie Greys

Miniature Galloways

Miniature Zebu

Miniature Panda Cows

Dexters

These are the commonly known small breeds of cattle. Mature weights for cows of each breed range from 500 to 700 lbs, unlike those cows where normal mature weights range around 1300 lbs or more.

The average Chianina cow stands 150-160 cm at the withers and weighs 800-1,000 kg, while the bull measures 160-175 cm, weighing 1,150-1,280 kg. Cows over 160 cm and bulls over 180 cm are not uncommon.

Friesians are black and white and produce lots of milk

Herefords are brown, much furrier and are bred for meat

It varies with breed, but 9 months (or ~285 days) is about average.

The color of hair depends on the breed of animal and where you live, producers in each area produce different cows.

However, if you see white cows they are Charolais, red cows Limousines or Red Angus, Black cows, Black Limousines or Black Angus, red with white faces are Hereford. Other colouration include spotted (Holstein), fawn, yellow (or buckskin), grey (Murray Greys or Charolais-Angus cross), speckled, white pointed (British White), tiger-stripe, or brindle.

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Because milk is white. the colour of the cow is irrelevent to the colour of the milk

There are 6 main types for dairy: Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss, Milking Shorthorn, and Ayrshire. But there are other uncommon breeds of milk cows like Dutch Belted, Canadienne, Randall, Lineback, Milking Devon, etc.

i recommend cow cheese rather than goat cheese

Depending on the body condition score and the liveweight of the "cow," usually the carcass weight of the animal is around 58% of the liveweight of the animal. The edible or ready-to-eat (or cutability) percentage of a Hereford "cow" is typically 49% of the carcass weight.

They use artificial selection. They select the best producing cows that give the most milk and breed them to bulls that have dams of the same quality to produce calves (or heifers) that exceed in milk productivity to their dams and grand-dams.

Yes, they have a high quality meat.

About 290 days, which is about 9 months and 20 days.

A good cow is likely producing 25-30 litres of milk a day. Some though - will give as much as 50L a day.