Animal Prod

• Beef Cattle Breeds (Bos indicus)

  • Aberdeen-Angus
  • Brahman
  • Charolais
  • Devon (Ruby Reds)
  • Galloway
  • Hereford
  • Polled Hereford
  • Shorthorn
  • Scottish Highland
  • Limousin
  • Simmental
  • Maine-Anjou
  • Chianina
  • Murray Grey
  • Santa Gertrudis
  • Africander
  • Gelbvieh
  • Salers
  • Belmont Red
  • Brangus
  • Braford
• Beef Cattle


  • For meat production
  • Other uses include leather, and products used in shampoo and cosmetics
• Considerations for Breed Selection


  • Production system
  • Market demands
  • Quantity and quality of feedstuffs available
  • Climate
  • Breed complementary
  • Cost and availability of purebred seedstock
• Traits Important for Selecting Dam Breeds

  • Early puberty
  • Moderate mature size
  • High fertility
  • Moderate to high milking ability (appropriate for food sources)
  • Calving ease
  • Longevity
  • Acceptable growth and carcass characteristics
• Traits Important for Selecting Sire Breeds

  • High growth rate with moderate mature size
  • Acceptable calving ease
  • Adequate carcass quality grades (marbling)
  • High-Quality product yield
• Aberdeen-Angus


  • Origin: North-eastern Scotland
  • Black color and polled (without horn)
  • Calves from Angus cows are usually smaller at birth than from other breeds
  • Body form is smooth, medium in size, trim adequate in length of side, and well muscled
• Brahman


  • Origin: USA/Queensland
  • Silver-grey coat and horned
  • Horns usually curve upward and sometimes tilted to the rear
  • Calve easily, milk well, and are protective of their young
  • Instead of a "moo" they produce a "grunt" sound
  • Characterized by a large hump over the top of the shoulder and neck
  • Resistant to Texas Fever and can stand heat well
• Charolais


  • Origin: France
  • White or creamy white in color, but the skin carries appreciable pigmentation
  • Hair coat is usually short in summer but thickens and lengthens in winter
  • Naturally horned
• Devon (Ruby Reds)


  • Origin: West England
  • Red, rich deep red to a light red or chestnut color
  • A bright ruby red and known for its nickname "Red Rubies"
  • Have an adequate size and scale but are not "horsey"
• Galloway


  • Origin: Southwestern Scotland
  • Color: Black to Dun (Silver through brown), Red, White (with dark pigment in the eyes, nose, teats, and ears)
  • The smallest beef breeds
  • The breed is polled, has short legs, and is block and compact in type
  • Their long hair coat provides insulation and waterproofing
  • Good rustlers and extremely hardy, able to stand cold weather conditions
• Hereford


  • Origin: Herefordshire in south-west England
  • They are brown with white over the face
  • Often referred as "white-face cattle"
  • Recoat with white face and horned
  • For vealer, steer and bullock production
• Polled Hereford


  • Origin: USA
  • Well suited to all markets
  • Same as Herefords but the difference is it doesn't have horns
• Shorthorn


  • Origin: North East of England
  • Red roan or white coat; Polled and horned
  • Developed from naturally shorthorns found in the breed
• Scottish Highland


  • Origin: Scotland
  • Colors are black, brindle, light red, dun, red, silver, and yellow
  • They are small but exceedingly hardy
  • They have a long coarse outer hair coat and a soft thick undercoat which gives them body protection against cold weather conditions
• Limousin


  • Origin: Central France in the province of Limousin
  • Color: Red-Gold color over the back, shading to light buckskin or straw under the belly and around the legs and muzzle
  • Horned and polled
  • Heavily muscled and known for high yield meat. Suitable for crossbreeding programs
  • Referred to as "butcher's animal" in france
• Simmental


  • Origin: Switzerland
  • Color: Light red or cream with faces much like the Herefords. They usually have some white spots on a white band over the shoulders
  • Naturally horned but breeders producing polled
  • Highly sought because of their rapid growth development, production of milk , butter, and cheese
  • Known for stature and excellent dairy qualities
  • Other names: Fleckvieh (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) Pie Rouge, Montbeliard, and Abondance (other European country and France) Pezzata Rossa (Italy)
• Maine-Anjou


  • Origin: Loire valley in France or Northwestern France
  • Coat is red, red with white spot, or roan
  • White marking on head, belly, rear legs, and tail
  • The largest breed developed in France
• Chianina


  • Origin: West central part of Italy
  • Noted from rapid growth and well-marbled, fine-textured meat
  • Pure white with a black switch on the tail
  • Short horns curve forward and are usually black in the younger animals and become lighter
  • Noticeable characteristics is the extensive and well-defined muscling
• Murray Grey


  • Origin: Wodonga Victoria
  • Dun grey and polled
  • Cattles have relatively small heads and bone
  • Survival and reproductive rate has been very satisfactory under a wide range of climate conditions
• Santa Gertrudis


  • Origin: USA
  • 3/8 brahman - 5/8 shorthorn, 37.5% brahman – 62.5% shorthorn
  • Red color polled or horned
  • Large beef animals noted for their ability to make large gains on grass to rustle on areas of sparse forage
  • Ease of calving, good mothering ability, and abundant milk supply
• Africander


  • Origin: South Africa
  • Exhibit good resistance to heat, a high level of tick resistance, quiet temperament, and a satisfactory high level of fertility under harsh conditions
  • Was used in shorthorn in developing Bonsmara breed and with Holstein in creating Drakensberger
  • Used in upgrading indigenous cattle in tropical countries
• Gelbvieh (Gelp-fee)


  • Origin: Bavaria, Germany
  • Red in color, with strong skin pigmentation
  • Naturally horned but in more recent times there are polled
  • Proponents of the breed claim the breed has superior fertility, calving ease, mothering ability, and growth rate of the calves
  • Polled cattle have been developed in USA from the use of naturally hornless foundation female
• Salers (Sa'lair)


  • Origin: South Central France (Massif Central)
  • Typically, horned and dark mahogany in red in color, however a growing number of polled and Salers are available
  • There are documented proofs of the breed's attributes of calving case, maternal efficiency and carcass merit
• Belmont Red


  • Origin: Queensland
  • 50% Africander, 25% Hereford, and 25% Shorthorn
• Brangus


  • Origin: North America
  • 3/8 or 37.5% Brahman and 5/8 or 62.5% Aberdeen-Angus
• Braford


  • Origin: Queensland
  • 50% Hereford 50% Brahman
  • Heat resistant and tick tolerance
• Dairy Cattle Breeds (Bos taurus)

  • Holstein Friesian
  • Brown Swiss
  • Guernsey
  • Ayrshire
  • Jersey
  • Milking Shorthorn
  • Tharparkar
  • Nagauri (Nagori)
• Dairy Cattle


  • Also called dairy cows or milk cows
  • Bred for the ability to produce large amount of milk
• Holstein Friesian


  • Origin: Northern Holland and Friesland
  • Chief characteristics are its large size and black and white spotted markings
• Brown Swiss


  • Origin: Switzerland
  • Color varies from light brown or gray to dark shades
  • One of the oldest breeds in existence
  • They are often considered as dual-purpose breed
  • They are heavier boned and thicker fleshed than the cattle of the other dairy breeds
  • These cattle are good and persistent milkers, producing milk of average butterfat content compared with other dairy cattle
• Guernsey


  • Origin: Island of Guernsey in the channel island
  • Fawn or red and white in color, and is hardy and docile
  • Its milk is rich in flavor, high in fat and protein, and has a golden-yellow tinge due to its high B-carotene content
  • It is a dairy breed, and is reared for that purpose only
  • Milk content: B-carotene, a provitamin for vitamin A
  • Milk has high butterfat content of 5% and high in protein content of 3.7%
• Ayrshire


  • Origin: Ayrshire in southwest Scotland
  • It typically have red and white markings; the red can range from a shade of orange to a dark brown
  • They are known for their hardiness and their ability to convert grass into milk efficiently
• Jersey


  • Origin: Jersey in the Channel Islands
  • One of the three Channel Island cattle breeds
  • Highly productive cattle
  • May give over ten times of their own weight in milk per lactation
  • Milk is high in butterfat = 4.84%. and Protein = 3.95%
  • It has yellowish tinge
• Milking Shorthorn


  • Origin: England
  • Average milk production for the breed is about 7,000 kg (15,000 lb) in an annual lactation of 305 days, with 3.8% butterfat and 3.3% protein
• Tharparkar


  • Origin: Tharparkar District in Sindh Province of Pakistan
  • It is dual purpose breed known for both its milking and draught potential
  • 8-10 kg milk daily and 3000 – 3500 kg annually with 5% fat in their milk
• Nagauri (Nagori)


  • Origin: former Johrpur state, now a part of the state of Rajasthan in India
  • White and gray color
  • This cattle are fine, big, upstanding, active, and docile
  • They have long deep and powerful frames, with straight backs and well-developed quarters
• Buffalo Breeds

  • Anatolian Buffalo (Turkish)
  • Australian Buffalo
• Anatolian Buffalo (Turkish)


  • Origin: raised in Turkey but originated in India
  • Dairy and draft breed
  • Usually dark gray to black
  • Often have white markings on the head and tail
  • Has sickle or crescent shaped horns
• Australian Buffalo


  • Origin: Australia
  • Feedlolts have been established to turn out young male buffalo
  • Growth
• Shorthorn


  • Origin: England
  • Average milk production: 7,000 kg (15,000 lb) in 305 days, with 3.8% butterfat and 3.3% protein